Court rules that quoting newspaper articles online constitutes fair use

Boing Boing – Fed court: quoting newspaper articles online is fair use – Boing Boing.

Judge Roger Hunt’s judgment confirms that an online forum is not liable for its users’ posts, even if it was not protected by the safe harbors of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s notice and takedown provisions. The decision also clarifies that a common practice on the Internet – excerpting a few sentences and linking to interesting articles elsewhere – is a fair use, not an infringement of copyright.

So that thing I just did right there? Totally legal. Good thing, too, or I would have violated copyright a brazillion times over the last nine years.