What copyright laws apply to the cut-and-pasting of material from the World Wide Web?
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Unfortunately, all the copyright laws apply to cutting and pasting from the Internet. Unless you have a defense, like fair use, or implied license, you're an infringer if you simply use text or images or other data without permission from the author.
There are also law firms out there that partner with photographers and, some say, try to trap people in infringement and then requiring a large settlement payment, often on the order of between $2000 and $20,000. Therefore, one needs to be very careful indeed with what one copies from the Internet!
Note that such firms do their work on a contingent fee, so if the attorney thinks you have no money and you will not pay, he or she will probably not bother to actually file suit against you (because this costs him $300 or so). But if suit is filed and you're served with notice in the US of the suit, then you had better defend yourself, or risk losing whatever assets you may have.
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