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Originally posted by decadence
You don't know that she didn't get permission.
Additionally, kappadelta.org seems to list publicly a whole bunch of Acrobat files making up the Norman Shield on their website.
Finally, in any case the publisher of the book itself is fairly large and its parent company is a Time Warner company. The chances that their extensive legal teams didn't make sure everything was okay are very-slim to none.
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I'm about 99% sure that KD did NOT give her permission. Being that NPC was against this to begin with, that KD expressly told me NOT to talk to her, and that the NPC sororities VERY rarely comply with this sort of thing.
Just because something is published on a website does NOT mean that anyone can take it and use it in their own publications. It's still protected by copyright law. Additionally, from what has been said, she did not even use anything from this version, she used an early 90's version, which is NOT on the web.
I only have an intro level copyright class under my belt, and we didn't delve too deeply into the laws surrounding the book publishing world. I'm guessing the company would use a "fair use" argument because they would say it's educational in nature. But I don't know where the line between fair use and copyright infringement would be in this case.
I put the question about this out on our KD yahoogroup, i'd like to see if anyone from HQ will answer my question, as they occassionally do when we put that type of question out in the group. If not, I intend to contact HQ more directly once my book arrives and i get to see exactly how it's cited.
And don't be so certain about Time-Warner's legal teams.... big companies screw up all the time. And the law in the US, ESPECIALLY copyright law, can be interpreted in many ways. Copyright law is an area that is very rarely cut and dry.