Using Journal Material

In our Reader Survey (results published in the October journal), we received quite a few queries along with the responses to the question "Do you sometimes reproduce Journal material for direct use in your programs?" In essence, these queries asked Can you?" referring, of course, to copyright laws. While we don't pretend to be expert in the finer points of copyright law, we can express the editorial philosophy of the Journal and some commonly-used "rules of thumb" for reproducing copyrighted material.