ESPN Insider story on Wesley Matthews

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  1. BlazerBeliever

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    This is a great story.

     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Just a heads up: I really do appreciate you posting the whole article, but doing so is kind of a no-no; it's OK to take a couple of paragraphs of an article under fair use laws, but you could potentially get S2 in trouble for copyright violation ...

    EDIT: Not to get all 'lawyery', it's a really nice article and it makes me kind of excited to see what he can do in a Blazers uniform ... if nothing else he sounds like an incredibly hard worker and a guy with a junkyard dog mentality; something that has been in woefully short supply for years on this team.

    Here's the direct link to the article for those with ESPN Insider
    http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insider/news/story?id=5546852
     
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    I hope he lives up to what the management sees he could be.

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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    I wish I'd read it before Minstrel edited it. There's not much in that excerpt. Could you summarize the missing parts?
     
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    Summaries in one's own words are fair use, copy & pastes of entire articles aren't. So if someone would like to summarize, please do.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    In short:

    Wes wanted to get drafted, he didn't, this made him mad/determined. Wes played good for Utah, Portland gave him a ridiculous contract. His mama and grandmama are both getting a house and a car and Wesley got a scar from guarding Kobe in the playoffs and this means he's going to be even more "determineder" this year for the Blazers
     
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    That was even more inspiring than the original article.

    You can't quantify "determinederness" in stats.
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    That's what you think. I'm working on a "Determinderness Equivalence Ratio" ("DER" for short) that calculates a player's intangibles, "wanting it more," heart and scrappiness -- John Hollinger eat yer heart out.
     
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    jlprk The ESPN mod is insane.

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    That saved me a lot of time! How about a summary of all posts since I was last here 3 days ago? Thanks!
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    Sure thing.

    "You're a dummy head," "No, you're a dummy head," "Nuh uh!" "Yes huh!" "Kevin Durant!"
     
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    seems like "determinederness" is inversely proportional to "tremendous upside potential"
     
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    Nikolokolus There's always next year

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    also inversely proportional to "supreme talent"
     
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    WOW. Gotta love those types of stories, guy goes from having nothing and thrown to the side to being on top the world. Glad I was able to catch the full article before someone "cried wolf"

    Matthews is getting a + from me today. After hearing that story I could now care less about the guys we gave up and the Rudy drama. Good things comes to those who wait, and Wesley Matthew's story is a classic example of that.

    All you hysterical Blazer fans who want it all right now could learn a lesson or two from our Newest Blazer.
     
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    Re: Wesley Matthews - ESPN MAG

    :clap:

    Cheers. Great Story. Beer.
     
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    Sort of and not exactly. A copyright protects the manner of expression, not the ideas. If you express the ideas in a summary that does not reproduce the stylistic expression in the article, it's an independent work (entitled to it's own copyright!). If you copy, or borrow heavily from, the original work then you might get in trouble if you undermine the commercial value of the original expression. It's hard to quantify how much copying is permitted so I can't help you there.

    Fair use speaks to the copying the original, or borrowing heavily from, and subsequent use. A copy & paste in the right context can be a fair use, but it depends on the use: criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.

    So I disagree that summary in one's own words is 'fair use'. It's not a use since you've remade it.

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