Many eyes read what Sara von Tresckow wrote on 13:07 -0600 010302
>This morning, while browsing a news service for a non-fiber related item,
>discovered that AP and Reuters print out many of their releases on Web sites
>sponsored by many newspapers as well as sites from AP and Reuters.
>ALL of these sites sponsor "click" buttons to allow instant, free email
>forwarding of these articles on to whomever you like.
>It this practice is supported - and it is - by Reuters, then there was
>nothing wrong in passing along information.
I'm not going to research this, but one can reasonably assume that
the newspapers and similar organizations have paid the news services
for the right to redistribute those items. I haven't paid, and
therefore I wouldn't redistribute them.
Please, can everyone quit the finger pointing?
A fundamental rule of FiberNet is not to post copyrighted material
without explicit permission. That is a very simple rule.
Thanks,
Ron
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