[tdadams]

That's not exactly a perfect analogy, but I'll run with it. Under the copyright law, a fair use claim can be made if the use of a copyrighted work is reproduced for the purpose of education or discussion. Free Republic would seem to meet that criteria. However, fair use is also limited to excerpts. Sometimes excerpts are posted on FR and sometimes entire articles are.

As you're probably aware, FR was sued and came to an agreement with two major publishers and agreed not to allow full reproduction of their work. Other copyright owners could do the same. The law and the courts worked properly in this example. Music copyright holders should also be allowed to enforce their copyrights.

[Leroy S. Mort]

However, fair use is also limited to excerpts. Sometimes excerpts are posted on FR and sometimes entire articles are.

As you're probably aware, FR was sued and came to an agreement with two major publishers and agreed not to allow full reproduction of their work. Other copyright owners could do the same.

Fair enough. So you would be supportive of an industry-wide attempt to limit all articles on FreeRepublic to excerpts? Meantime copyright violation is ok as long as no one sues? Or is it even a violation in that case?