Tucson Mensun Newsletter Policy

On Printing

"Stuff From the Internet"

The Tucson Mensun newsletter strives to avoid copyright violation and plagiarism. At the same time we wish to publish materials of interest to our members.

If you have obtained credited (author or authors specified) materials "from the Internet," the newsletter would only even consider publishing them if we know that the author explicitly consents to have her/his material published in the newsletter.

If you have obtained anonymous materials "from the Internet," the printed newsletter of Tucson Mensa will not publish them. It is impossible for us to contact "anonymous" for permission to reprint. (The only possible exception is material that is known to have been written long enough ago that it is not protected by copyright.)

Digests of, comments on, or guides to materials on the Internet may in some cases be publishable. You might however wish to have these materials added to or linked from the official Tucson Mensa Web Page. The Tucson Mensa Web Page publishes on a more permanent basis than the Tucson Mensun newsletter, which has a new issue each month. The Tucson Mensun newsletter might however print notifications that such items have been added to the Tucson Mensa Web Page.

When deciding what to print, materials created by Mensans and by Tucson Mensans tend to receive higher priority. The involvement of our members tends to indicate a higher probability that these materials are of such a nature as to interest our readers.

In any case it is strongly against Tucson Mensa newsletter policy to misrepresent the authorship of any material printed. Use of a clear and honest nom de plume (pen name) is permitted. Multiple individuals may publish material under the same pen name if they agree to do so.

To the best of the current Editor's knowledge Tucson Mensa has never had trouble with these policies or with violations of them. However, if a person were to intentionally misrepresent the authorship of material submitted to the newsletter in order to cause the newsletter to publish misrepresentations of that material's authorship, the consequences could include blacklisting of some or all of the guilty person's future newsletter submissions. Local, national, and world Mensa ethics policies may also specify applicable sanctions. National and international laws may also apply.

For more information on these policies you can contact Tucson Mensa or the Newsletter Editor.