[SEL] Ebay plagiarised listing description.

[Paul Pavlinovich]

The law does not agree with you. Break it if you like, I wouldn't bother 
chasing you for the uses you've described but others are not as nice as me!

This site offers a fairly reasoned view.
http://www.copyright.org.au/

Regards
Paul

Peter Lowe wrote:
> The internet is a free domain and the old adage of "if you don't want it 
> pinched, don't put it there", goes as far as I am concerned. He was not 
> selling the article, only using the information to enhance the sale. He also 
> had acknowledged the Maytag Owners Club. When selling computer and 
> electrical spares I pull from the manufacturers web site every time, it is 
> advertising their product.
> I know we had this discussion before when others where using our web site 
> photos to make a profit on Ebay, yes chase the bastards then. Peter Forbes 
> went to the trouble of encrypting his photos.
>
> If writing an article else where, you acknowledge in your Bibliography if 
> information was obtained from other sources.
> However, with the growing use of electronic sources, this is now called a 
> Works Cited page (because biblios means book, so it is inaccurate to call it 
> a bibliography if you used more than books).
> The last paragraph was pinched from a "Yahoo Answers" page ;-)))
>
> Peter, Oz
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