The purpose of a copyright is to make sure the owner of the copyrighted material gets the income and/or profit. It would be legal for someone to make a copies of copyrighted material that has been made available to the public on a public web site, and distribute it. But it would be against the law for an individual to copy that information, and then sell it to make money, or, of course, make it appear to be his/her own. <div style="CLEAR: both">Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Honolulu, HI Author of The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com</div> -----Original Message----- From: Jurgen Goering <pianoforte@pianofortesupply.com> To: caut@ptg.org Sent: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:48 am Subject: [CAUT] Copyright <div id=AOLMsgPart_0_c189c3d4-1939-43fd-b9e0-f07fb681e1b3 style="FONT-SIZE: 12px; MARGIN: 0px; COLOR: #000; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff">Recently, on this list, an article regarding the sale of Bösendorfer has been reprinted in its entirety not once, but several times. At the bottom of the article is says  >> Copyright Â© 2002 Playbill, Inc. All Rights Reserved    What does this mean? Does it mean that it is OK to copy the whole article as long as you include the copyright information? I always thought that is means that the article must not be copied without expressed permission by the copyright holder.    It seems that the PTG and the Journal go to great lengths to assure copyright on their (our) materials. Would it be OK for anyone to copy a Journal article and make it public, say on a web site of piano forum?  I suspect not.    If there is indeed copyright infringement going on with reproduction of the Playbill article on the CAUT list, can it be that the PTG is being exposed to legal risk, as this list is part of the PTG website?    I don't want to berate anyone here, I am just asking for clarification.    Jurgen Goering  </div> <div class="AOLPromoFooter"> <hr style="margin-top:10px;" /> More new features than ever. Check out the new <a href="http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/text.htm?ncid=aolcmp00050000000003" target="_blank">AOL Mail</a>! </div>