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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 7622420, member: 112&quot;]While I know for a fact that situations like what you are talking about do happen, that is not the concern in this situation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lemme explain. The numismatic community is a rather tight knit community, one where just about everybody knows or is aware of what everybody else is doing. And that is especially true when it comes to the various coin magazines. And the coin magazines, they are especially protective about the material they publish. </p><p><br /></p><p>Many times over the years I have written to various coin magazines asking them for permission to do nothing more than post a particular picture, here on the forum, that was in their magazine - just 1 picture. And to do so for the sole purpose of sharing knowledge with the members of this forum. And every single time I have ever done this, permission to do that was refused ! </p><p><br /></p><p>I would also add that since CT is one of the biggest and busiest coin forums there is, people who work for the coin magazines, including their editors, are either members of and or read this forum on a daily basis. And as such they are very well aware of what gets posted here. And they are not the least bit shy about demanding that posts and or pictures, published in their magazine, and posted here, be removed. And as long as the copyright protected material is removed, (and yes it always is removed), that&#039;s the end of it. There are no letters from lawyers or anybody else.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it&#039;s pretty easy to understand their reasoning on this, for one thing it&#039;s the law. And for another it is the pictures and articles that can only be found in their magazines by paying subscribers that keeps the magazines in business. That is specifically why people pay for the magazines ! So if those pictures and articles were allowed to be posted on coin forums like this one, and become available for free to any and all - and not just the members of this forum but everybody because literally anyone can view and read this forum - well, then the magazine has just lost the paying customers that keep them in business ! </p><p><br /></p><p>And not only that, but the authors, and or photographers, who write and submit the articles and pics, and make their living from doing so, well they just lost future income as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>All of that is why it is so important that copyright be honored. It&#039;s not just intellectual material/property that is being protected by copyright, it is the way people earn their living that is being protected.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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