Since a number of posts have been made since the post made earlier today that I had to edit, please allow me to once again remind everyone to be cognizant of copyright. We obviously do not want to open up our hosts at Alembic to legal liability over copyright infringement.
If a web page has been clearly marked copyright, then, in my view, it is not a good idea to copy an article off that page and post it here.
My experience of other discussion boards on the web has been that if you wish to share an article with others in the group, common practice is to write your own summary of the article, quote a few lines, or, for a longer article, even a few paragraphs, and then cite the author and link back to the source.
Copying an entire copyrighted article without attribution is, in my view, just not a very good idea.
In our fast changing on-line world, these issues of copyright are difficult, and reasonable people can have differing views; so it is understandable that it may not always be clear what is or is not acceptable practice. But I think generally accepted practice in this particular case is clear; and I would thus encourage our members to resist the temptation to copy articles written by others and post them in their entirety here.
(Message edited by davehouck on September 25, 2009)
