Effective immediately, TDCAA must insist that all posters honor the copyright protections afforded to information on other websites, including news media articles.

Accordingly, any poster wishing to reprint a news article, etc., should only include the first two or three paragraphs of the article -- or whatever other portion is relevant to the post -- and then should provide a link to the original work for those who want to read more. This same practice will be followed on the TDCAA home page.

Although this new policy will not be imposed retroactively, violations of the policy may result in posts being deleted by administrators.

Thank you for your consideration.

[This message was edited by Shannon Edmonds on 02-25-08 at .]