It has been held up in court, many times. It is illegal to copy a published
article and then republish it in any format. Now the odds of you being
charged with theft of intellectual property is very slim, but if you only
obey laws because you feel their is a high probability of being prosecuted,
than you can probably download music and videos online, and copy someone
else's articles and republish them in rec.boats without losing a lot of
sleep.

"basskisser" wrote in message
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"Comcast News" wrote in message
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Basskisser,
I don't know if you have cut and pasted entire articles published or
written
by another person, but if you have you have violated the author's and
the
publishers copyright, which is against the law. I think that is what
jim
was talking about.

I think I posted this link but in case I didn't hit send, here is the
link:

http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

It is written so a non lawyer can understand the laws. Computers and
the
internet have made it very easy to download music or cut and paste
others
people's intellectual property without knowing they are stealing and
breaking the law. The first step to correcting this injustice is for
people
to understand it is against the law, and damaging to those who created
the
product that is being stolen.

That is pure hogwash that would never hold up in a court of law. It is
just too vague. It would mean that, every time that someone here
posts, and then someone replies, and the reply has the original post,
and subsequent replies attached, they are violating copyright laws?


"basskisser" wrote in message
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"jim--" wrote in message
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"basskisser" wrote in message
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"jim--" wrote in message
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These cut and paste posts by you and Krause carry no validity.

1. You have violated copyright laws by reproducing and posting
an
entire
article

You fool!! The article isn't copyrighted, therefore, no copyright
laws
have been violated.

2. You give no link to the reported story you cut and pasted.

I certainly stated where the article came from. You do know how to
do
a search, don't you?

Krause has been know to edit articles so they meet his agenda.

Post the sections of the article you want to highlight, post a
link
to
the
entire article, then comment on it and make the point you wish
to
make.

Failing to do so gives you and your cut and paste posts zero
credibility.

Hmm, let's see, I told you where the article came from, but,
because I
didn't post a URL, it's simply not credible? I love it!! This from
a
person who makes assumptions, and post wild, unfounded allegations
about people, using absolutely NO facts!!!!!!

Zoooooooooommmmmmmmmm. Right over your head....as usual.

Well, let's just start by you listing just exactly WHAT copyright laws
I have violated, shall we? I know you are stupid, so, we'll just break
your idiotic diatribe down to one point at a time, we'll start with
that one, seeing how it's first in your list.