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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: Re: [LO] Copy and Pasting from Mailing Lists.
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:24:49 +0000
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At 08:09 PM 4/6/2005, Lainee Denton-Jones wrote:
>I was always told that yes the original poster has copyright but as list admins were are not the list police and *IF* someone does copy and paste or forward then we are to go under the presumption that they are doing so with permission of the original poster. Dunno if this has changed or not...
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>Lainee

Hi, Lainee:

I agree with you, *if* the person posting the copy at least says that permission has been given. Otherwise, I think there is a reasonable presumption that permission has not been granted.

Darrell


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