Message #4134

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Well, all the big journalists work for corporations traded on Wall Street, and that's the short answer.

And what might get this board and its host into legal trouble is reproducing the entire text of somebody else's composition without compliance to Fair Use portion of copyright law if you're without formal permission to reproduce the article, or without posting your formal permission to reproduce the article.

If this author has granted permission to reproduce the article, I request that you post a link to that permission.  Thanks.

well, i had no idea i needed permission to copy/paste anything off the internet-since when? i attributed it to the author -i thought that was good enough-no?

It used to be good enough and itty bitty boards can still get away with it, I guess...but...there are increasing numbers of copyright cops out and about and it's not something that has ever been up to snuff especially on the Internet.  What Fair Use requires online is putting in quotes only the portion of an article you wish to discuss and provide a link to the original author's website where the full text of the article resides.  Full text reproduction = reproduction without permission unless you did get permission and post that permission with the article.

ok-i fixed it, i think-better?

Yup! That's definitely regulation. Thank you very much.