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Originally Posted by dlavery
Someone else owns the material that has been posted here. In this case, you have blatantly copied an article authored by Lou Dobbs and owned by CNN. CNN owns all the content, intellectual property, and reprinting rights. It is their article, and they have not given you permission to make it available to anyone else. CNN retains all the rights to that article, and we are honor-bound to respect those rights.
-dave
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Not that I want to disagree with you Dave, but does reprinting now include reposting? Just curious. I too have not only posted articles in the past here on CD, but also linked to the original for reference sake.. That said:
I agree with you completely and wished that everyone who posts things of this nature (references from external sources) would read and understand MLA format for citing works. Even though we are not in a college English class, it's just common courtesy to give credit (or blame, whatever the case) where it is due.
Matt seems to be getting a lot of heat from an article that was not his original though, and that's wrong to me. Now, getting heat for what he said after that in his own posts, is wrong by nature, but that's the nature of the beast of a public forum. We come here to exchange ideas, beliefs, and opinions and as the famous saying states.. "Opinions are like brains*. Everyone has one".
*Sure, we'll go with brains for this G rated example.