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Originally Posted by NeedAHouse
Ok...skip the legal angle. Morally, it's wrong. Someone writes an article to make a living for a company who pays them so that they can sell those articles either via print distribution or online and collecting advertising revenue. If you take that entire article, and post it somewhere else, you're stealing their ad revenue, whether the law says so or not. If they company makes less money, they pay the people creating the content less money.
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This is a stretch if not downright bogus. I think actually the publishers get paid for clicks on internet published material whther those clicks are "live" or robots and by including the link to the article in another high-googling discussion PB posters would actually be considerably boosting the ad revenue for the original publisher. Companies, including internet content publishers, actually pay professionals to try and seed the kind raised google profile that comes from 3rd party linking and discussion that happens on PB. Think about how much PNI has made in ad revenue from the "shooting map" in discussion after discussion here on PB, for example.
I'll take the argument that if they say they want to officially give approval for the quotation of their content they mean it, but the arguement that they lose ad revenue is actually backwards from the truth of the situation. PB quotation and discussion boosts their google profile and ad sales.