Michaelirish
All these sites pay their journalists five figure sums for writing quality articles and in return get their revenue from advertisers. By taking their article and republishing it on HotCopper you are denying them revenue.(Obviously HotCopper are not concerned about copyright infringements?)
For you information ABC Terms of Use are:
(But these are just typical of most sites)
4. Use Of ABC Content
All intellectual property rights in the content, software and systems owned by or licensed to the ABC on any ABC Online Services, including logos, images, names, designs, trademarks and copyright (ABC Content) are reserved to the ABC and its licensors.
Such content is provided for your personal, non-commercial use only. Unless specifically noted in the House Rules for a particular service,
you may not otherwise reproduce, republish, modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, reverse engineer or disassemble ABC Content, without obtaining the ABC's prior written permission.
http://www.abc.net.au/conditions.htm
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