COPYRIGHT
Every piece on this site is copyright by me, Michael Quinion.
You must ask me before you reproduce anything on this site on another Web site or in a blog. This also applies, of course, to newspaper, magazine, book, or other print publication, for which I usually charge a fee.
You are, of course, more than welcome to refer to pieces, comment on them, criticise them, or quote the occasional sentence from them. You may also copy and store copies of pieces for your private use or for schoolwork or for research purposes. All this is permitted under the usual copyright fair use provisions.
On the other hand, I’m not usually willing to have a piece reproduced in its entirety in another Web page or in a blog — it means that I lose the ability to correct or update it.
If you do comment on a piece, it’s a courtesy to your readers and to me to say who wrote it and where you got it from. Please include a link either to the original piece or to this site’s home page.
In particular, you don’t need to ask me first if you propose just to provide a link on your own site to this one or to a piece contained in it (their locations are permanent and you may safely quote the URL of an individual item). In fact, I’ll be delighted if you do. Tell your friends as well!