Hi Howard, I just replied to your email too and will quote some of my reply here for general information
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if the Newsletter doesnt have a section attached that warns about copyright then it should be ok to post. If it warns that it is copyrighted then the author might complain.
it is such a fine line and we have taken a real relaxed approach to it unless we know for sure there is copyright....eg many Newspapers, research journals etc and then we have just been PMing members to add attribution/links etc.
so I would say provided your newsletter doesnt specifically warn of copyright violation, then it is ok. You did give the author's name. May be a good idea in future to place the copied piece in the quote tags to distinguish it from your own words
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we really dont want to be seen as "copyright police"
nor to hamper the excellent info that is posted here so often.
unless we know for sure that there is a definite copyright infringement, we take a "wait see if anyone complains" approach, and just PM members who have copied known copyrighted work without attribution/source link etc
We likely wouldnt even have drawn attention to this had we not had some complaints from authors/publications etc. When they complain we have to immediately comply
thanks for checking.....
