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Originally Posted by mrt12345

there is a clause if you post a article and you put a link to where the article is originated then i heard there is nothing much he can do. but dam i am thinking of the terminology.

How he can get you is if you modify the story to try to make it your own then there is a problem.

I had done some research ways back and i even had a great link on the laws about copyright
literature . there are some rule also is you keep the name of the author .

I am going to look into this again . man i should of kept the information.

update do some searching under the "fair use" this is a gray matter but it could help you get out of trouble.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

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plus i think in order to sue you he has to prov lost of income and damages

It depends on what type of content it is...is the type of content that you need publicity,
and you need all the backlinks you can get? or is the type of content that could cause
a company to loose money because if it is all over the net, they may have a backlink,
but so what if it can be got on the net for free, which sorta makes the backlink
pointless and worthless if they are no longer can sell their content...

and I do not see offering a backlink being permission
to place anyones content online.

again, it depends on what type of content it is.

Is it money making content that you want to get out for backlinks...or is it
content for Mary Had a Little Lamb which can cause less sales if the content
is all over the internet...? Depends on the content, and if the copyright holder
wants the content online, so offering a backlink goes not grant permission,
unless you are going through RSS feeds, then of course they would want
their content out for exposure and such, but it would make since that some
do not want their content out so they can keep their hands around making money.