[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?

[tdadams]

Won't you quit farbricating scenarios and implying that they're my position? I've posted plenty enough on this topic - that should leave you no doubt about my point of view.

[tdadams]

So you would be supportive of an industry-wide attempt to limit all articles on FreeRepublic to excerpts?

It may be against my personal interest (I enjoy the collection of articles here) if that were the case, but I don't think it would be inappropriate. Copyright owners have a legitimate interest in protecting their work.

Meantime copyright violation is ok as long as no one sues? Or is it even a violation in that case?

If I murder someone but don't get caught, is it any less a crime?

Are you asking serious questions or just being contentious?