Kevin,

I appreciate you trying to understand the importance of honoring an author's
intellectual property. That is a step in the right direction. The
difference between you cut and pasting a news article and JimH cut and
pasting a joke, is the news article you have cut and pasted have been
protected by a copyright by the author and the publisher of the article.
The joke has not been credited to any author. If you do a Google of the
joke, you will see it is republished 1000's of times, without crediting any
author. Now if "the author" had protected his work with a copyright, he
would be able to sue to either have the work removed from the web sites, or
for restitution from those who illegally republished his work.

This is a step in the right direction.

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Lord Reginald Smithers wrote:
JimH,
The subject has been changed to reflect current PC.

Gee, that's odd. You forgot to chastise JimH for cutting and pasting an
article without giving formal credit to it's author.