Maybe some further explanation will help here, I hope~

The problem is~ Karina creates recipes professionally and has published several cookbooks, and has made it known that she does not want her recipes copied. She put them out on BT as a way of giving back to the forum, but did not want them copied here and there....and floating all around the Internet. Since then she has created a blog, and you can find many of her recipes there, along with copyright notice. Scroll down the left bar until you get to the index:
http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/

There have been many past discussions about copyright, and I realize not everyone was part of those discussions. This particular situation in regard to posting other people's recipes has caused a lot of hard feelings in the past.

There have also been discussions forum wide here about copyright in general~ in regard to copying things off of other forums or online sources (BT or other forums, Betty Crocker.com, news feeds, you name it) to post here. I realize not everyone has been part of those discussions either. Can we quote full text of short online magazine articles, etc. ~ which may technically/potentially involve copyright enfringement?? Because copyright law is very open to interpretation it can be a fuzzy area.

It is always OK is to provide links to threads or posts that hold the information we want to convey, with a general summary, or a few leading sentences.

To copy information and repost it in total may potentially violate copyright law, however it would be impossible for a forum like this to actually interpret law and try to monitor potential copyright enfringement. So, each individual is responsible for what they post. In essense, it is ultimately up to the copyright owner to address possible infringement and ask for it to be removed. As for copying personal posts of others, while there is a slim chance that anyone would challenge it legally, it might not be considered good netiquette to do it. It may be better to leave links to posts where the person maintains the freedom to edit, remove it, etc.

There were a lot of hard feelings all around on the old forum in regard to the copying of Karina's recipes after she had requested it not be done. It was my personal opinion that her request was simple and should be honored~ simply because she asked us not to do it....without even entering into the technicalities of copyright law. So, some of us know about this history, and other's don't.

Hope this helps to avoid any more confusion. I am a friend of Karina's and really appreciate all the time and effort she devoted to entering her recipes and indexing them (along with some others who helped ), and I appreciate that Kim was trying to avoid repeating history here.

Becki, I'm really sorry that you stepped into a situation that you were unaware of, and hope you now understand where this was coming from a little better. I'm sorry for any misunderstandings.

Cara