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To: SI Dave who wrote (39)	3/24/2004 5:36:58 AM
From: Cisco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12762

I was hoping you would comment on whether by posting a URL to a site that one personally owns, if they are under section 3.2 of the TOU assigning SI a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty free, perpetual, non-revocable license under . . . (their) copyrights or other intellectual property rights to anything on their personal site? A lot of people post links to their personal sites both on threads and in their profiles. I was unsure if SI has every taken a position on this matter.

To: SI Dave who wrote (39)	3/24/2004 8:46:19 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12762

Posting an entire article of copyrighted material is almost always a copyright violation, unless the holder gives permission. I have been on sites that will not let you copy and paste. Just the other day trying to set up an email i tried to copy and paste part of an article and it would not copy. then i got a message come up that said copyright protection. Why wouldn't it be practical for all url sites that do not approve of copy set up the same barriers? It would avoid a lot of confusion.

To: SI Dave who wrote (39)	3/24/2004 11:40:21 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12762

I understand that all information on any Website is in the public domain, unless there's a posted warning that the specific material is copyright protected... Of course, copyright protection is designed to prevent the commercial pirating of another person's intellectual property... so, even if copyright protected information is actually shared, copied, and posted elsewhere for strictly informational purposes, there seems to be no infringement since the copying was not done for the personal monetary gain of that poster... the exception to this would be the sharing and downloading of music since that would be pirating the property that could otherwise be sold... GZ