Question about copyright

**"Diana Pederson" w*@ameritech.net**

Dear garden writers:

I've run into a situation on an email discussion group (about gardening!)
that I believe is clearly violating the copyright laws today.  I've brought
the issue to the attention of their moderators.  As a result of my inquiry,
they changed their group description to this:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/christiangardeners/.

Does anyone hear have a clear answer.  Can they post something like that and
then freely post articles found on line to an email discussion group even
with a copyright notation?

After spending several hours reading over the copyright information given at
the sites listed below, I strongly believe the answer is NO and have told
them so.  Am I right or are they right?  Does anyone know for sure?

http://www.umuc.edu/library/copy.html
http://www.templetons.com/brad/linkright.html
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

I left the list because most of the "garden information" posted was in the
form of copyrighted material.  I won't knowingly participate with a group
that clearly breaks the law.

Diana Pederson, Garden Writer
houseplants.bellaonline.com
gardening.bellaonline.com

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