It has come to my attention that some members of this forum are making posts that contain copyrighted articles from sources such as the AP and Yahoo! News.

While I welcome anyone to post in this forum, I have to insist that any posts you make only contains links to these stories and/or your personal thoughts on them -- and NOT the entire copyrighted article with or without copyrighted photos.

Copyright infringement is a subject we take very seriously here at BellaOnline. So much so, the subject is discussed in the forum FAQ at http://forums.bellaonline.com/faq.php?Cat=0#rules

By posting copyrighted articles in their entirety, you are violating the rules of usage for this forum -- rules you agreed to when you became a registered user.

So in short:
-- it's ok to post links to the stories
-- it's ok to post your thoughts on the stories
-- it's NOT ok to post the entire story with or without photos

If you have any questions about what is and isn't appropriate, please don't hesitate to PM myself or one of the other BellaOnline editors and we'll be happy to answer your questions.

We welcome your input to these forums, and would like to see you happy being here. But we have to observe the rules as posted.

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Barbara, Luxury Travel Editor