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Old Oct 12, 2018 | 11:40 am
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Originally Posted by Raffles
Luckily for all of us, IHG now makes the PB list accessible in a way which allows a cut and paste, with a bit of tidying up on top, rather than a mass rewrite of 150 hotel names!

This was always one of the more intriguing dilemmas I ever came across though. Imagine you have a PDF list of 150 hotel names. Someone has retyped it already into normal text for online use. You COULD spend an hour retyping it yourself but the end result would be IDENTICAL to the list the someone else has already retyped and put online. No-one would be able to tell whether you had retyped it or cut and pasted. So what, realistically, do you do?
Depends on whether you respect IP. If so, you don't steal work. If you are a blogger, otoh....you cut and paste and HT, as if that is fair compensation for stealing IP...
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