This article should interest some.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2006/07/23/1698903-cp.html

Can someone post the article as my access is restricted by firewall más é do thoil é.

Seo duit.

Gaelic speakers visit N.S. to help restore fading language
By JAMES KELLER

HALIFAX (CP) - Olivia MacDonald hopes to be fluent in Gaelic some day. The nine-year-old from St. Andrews, N.S., has learned the dwindling Celtic language at home from her father and in after-school programs. And earlier this month, she participated in a weeklong immersion program with five Scottish women and their eight children, who are in Nova Scotia teaching their native tongue.

"I'm Scottish and I really like it and I think it's really cool to be with people from Scotland," Olivia says from her home in St. Andrews. "I can say a lot of things."
Olivia is one of about 120 children in three communities to take part in a series of workshops, games and other activities designed to help them learn to speak and understand Gaelic.


Cén firewall atá agat Róman? Tá Norton againn agus oibríonn sé go maith.

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Caitriona,

From our Terms page:

Copyrighted content posted to the Forums without permission will be deleted. External copyrighted content may be linked to and, if necessary, accompanied by a brief excerpt for purposes of explanation.

Caoimhín

Oops. Gabh mo leithscéal. Ní raibh 'fhios agam. Ach tá anois. Ní dhéanfaidh mé arís é. Tá tú i do shuí go luath nó b'fhéidir go bhfuil an t-am difriúil i do chuid den tír? Tá sé 6:00 anseo. Dia duit ar maidin.

A Chaoimhín,

Blame me - I asked to post the article because I can't follow the link as my system administration has installed very thick firewall. But still what is the problem with copy-pasting article in the public domain if the source is clearly stated? Copyright has specific exemption relating to educational purpose .i. what this site specifically is. I don't see any problem - you may contact the lawyers: they will confirm that copyrighted content can be freely used for educational, non-profit purposes without monetary compensation.

Roman,

'educational use" has it's limitations, at least in US copyright law. This becomes especially true when the entirety of a work is published such as happened here.

Caoimhín

Silverwolf has an article remarkably similar to the one we can't reprint on this board:

http://silverwolf2006.blogspot.com/2006/07/scottish-gaelic-speakers-visit-nova.h tml

Caoimhin is just obeying the rules. Its the rules that deserve a repremand. Copyright rules, in my opinion, are rather over-the-top. It doesn't seem that such harmless pasting of an article labeled with its source should be cause for potential lawsuits etc. People need to just calm down a bit.

Beir bua agus beannacht

Riona,

I beg to differ; I'm strongly in favor of protecting one's work through copyright, be it a work of literature or music. I find it analagous to my field of engineering where a patent protects the work of the original inventor.

But perhaps there's a legitimate work-around, such as asking the copyright holder for permission to reprint or providing links to the original site, if available.

What I mean is that noone is getting money for reprinting short articles in settings like this so there ought not to be such strict rules about it in the generally excepted "copyright rules manual". I understand how someone's work is important to protect, but when such an incident as this occurs we ought not to be in potential danger of trouble. I'd not mind so much if an article I wrote and published in several papers was re-copied for educational purposes, after all the author's name was written thus giving credit whare credit was due.

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