>>uh-oh... I quoted you. I think I hear the doorbell ringing... <bg>
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>>"You never know what is under copyright and the article came from AP. Better safe then sorry! :)"
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>Jay;
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>I read an article not too long ago from an attorney concerning copyrights in the United States. The attorney stated that anything an individual creates, be it music or even an e-mail, is copyrighted and belongs to the creator. No copyright has to be filed as this occurs automatically.
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>Think of all the cut and paste quotes we make on the UT, as well as the thread content being copied from one post to another automatically? Man, are we in trouble! :)
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>Tom

AFAIK you are not breaking copyright laws when you quote someone and provide a form of link/reference to where you quoted from. I had to quote a lot of papers in my thesis and project papers in college and I always added a list of referenced books/articles.
Here on UT when a thread is copied from one post to another there is a link between the two posts (in the database), so I don't think it is illegal to have that option set on.

Another interesting question though is: To who/whom does the stuff that we post here on UT belong to? Does Michel "own" the rights?

Einar