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["Welna.Sarah" <welna AT niehs.nih.gov>]

i've been searching for news/tech articles about the copyright
issue... if anybody knows of any URLs, could you send them on?
thanks!
s.

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> From:         Michael S
> Czeiszperger[SMTP:czei AT webperformanceinc.com]
> Sent:         2001-Jun-25 1:14 PM
> Subject:      [internetworkers] RE: MS How-To-Disable Smart Tags
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> In my opinion smart tags are a copyright issue, not a user issue.
> While 
> user's have control over some basic layout parameters such as font
> size, the 
> copyright owner of a page has control over the actual text, and what
> that 
> text links to. By modifying the content of an original work, Smart
> Tags 
> violates the copyright of documents, and I fully expect MS to be
> sued over 
> them, and rightfully so.
> 
> What's next, "Smart Banner Ads", where MS replaces the
> advertisements on a 
> site with advertisements of its own?
> 
> - -- 
> Michael S Czeiszperger
> czei AT webperformanceinc.com
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