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Originally Posted by HarryT
There's nothing complex about teaching children that "it's wrong to take stuff without the owner's permission unless you pay for it". This is the basic stuff of ethics; no need to involve the law.
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Maybe not so basic. Some people believe that the act of posting material on the Web is tacit permission for them to take and use that material.
I had this discussion when whole sections of a Web site I ran were posted elsewhere without attribution--more than once. The argument from the plagiarists was, If I didn't want the information used, why did I post it? They simply did not see what was wrong.