Always ask for permission before copying text you find on the Web, no matter how compelling the writing may be.
Suite101 writers often find that blogs and competitive websites copy original articles without first asking permission.
Using Google Alerts, many of our authors track keywords embedded into their articles or references to their names as authors. This notifies us when our writing is duplicated on another website.
Suite101.com has exclusive electronic rights for one year after an article or blog is published on the website. That work cannot be published elsewhere on the Internet unless you are granted special permission by Suite101.
You are welcome to post an introduction followed by up to 50 words from the writing, provided that your text includes a link to the original article or blog on Suite101.com.
After the first year of publication, ownership rights shift to me as the sole owner of the online-published work. Just as you would during Suite101's one year ownership period, you must ask me for permission to publish my work on another website.
If this is not acceptable, I would ask you to please remove my article or blog from your site. I do appreciate your interest in my work, and I would suggest that if you would like to publish works written by writers outside of your organization that you ask their permission first.
Here is the link to my original article, in case you would like to edit your blog post.
