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If you feel the need to clone our web site, at least have the decency to contact Paul Croteau and ask permission.

What constitutes material protected by copyright on the Internet?

Any Web site is considered an original intellectual work as well. Its design and content, such as text, visual layout including links, graphics, web pages, and other unique content like video clips, audio samples, source code and all the rest of the unique mark-up and elements which altogether makes it a website as a whole are protected by the copyright law. Anyone who would use the elements of the website without crediting the source would be considered a plagiarist, or one who commits plagiarism.

However, some who are beginners in creating Web sites or who are not very familiar with the ethics on using and sharing Internet information might ‘innocently’ commit this crime. Sadly, as the popular quote implies ‘Ignorantia Legis Non Excusat’ (which means: ‘ignorance of the law excuses no one’), it is therefore important to know that such a law exists for Web sites as well, and that it will pay off to know how to avoid committing such a crime unconsciously. Proper paraphrasing, documentation and careful citation of references will greatly help save you from committing this crime punishable by law. In writing an article, for example, it would be better to analyze the ideas carefully rather than merely copying the Web site contents.

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