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Citations of Material used on Web Sites.

The recent unsolicited use of materials at several web sites has made me feel that perhaps there should be proper Internet protocol required of all web sites, placed online.
This is not the first time that material from my web sites have been used without proper permission or credit. There have been at least two other occasions where articles (sometimes using my exact words) and photos have been used without permission or credit. I have spent about a dozen years researching the Union Navy vessel, the USS AGAWAM and her personnel, and my web sites on this vessel reflect a small part of this research. Some four years ago, a web site was placed on the Internet, showing exactly the same material as taken from one of my web sites on the USS AGAWAM, and it had apparently been placed on the net by two students at a college in one of the mid-western states of the US. I contacted the administrators of the college and advised them of this use, without my permission, and they eventually apologised, and ensured that the students placed a credit line at their site. This was pure plagiarism, and perhaps laws should be passed, requiring all web site administrators to first obtain permission before the use of any material from other sites or publications, and then a proper citation should be included with all web pages showing the exact source of all information, as well as photos. Colleges teaching students to create web sites should also be required by law to include information about proper citation, and the inclusion of sources, etc.
Unfortunately it seems that no such laws are currently in place, and that people just use the work of others with impunity. The same requirements should be in place, as with any publications, such as books and magazines, so that copyright laws cannot be broken, and it should be worldwide.

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