Posting in this forum and copyright issues

Please note that if you report News here you can't just take chunks

of text (or the entire text) from other websites or sources. You can

give a brief quote and a link, but if you reproduce other people's

entire articles it's a violation of copyright.

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We appreciate, even depend on, user contributions to this forum, but

we have to be sure to stay within applicable copyright laws or photo.net could find itself in trouble. Many news sources (quite correctly) aggresively defend their copyright rights.<p>

You don't need to read this before posting in this forum, but for anyone realley interested in copyright law there is a whole website devoted to discussion of the issues around "fair use" of copyrighted material. <a href="http://fairuse.stanford.edu/">http://fairuse.stanford.edu/</a>

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As I said, we appreciate, welcome and depend on user contributions here and this message should in no way discourage anyone from posting. We may edit postings if they appear to be on the wrong side of the copyright line though.<p>

Thanks.