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The Trouble with Copy and Paste

Say you come across a book review in The New York Times that your friend must read, and you copy and paste it into an email and off it goes. No problem, right?  Not necessarily.  “The opportunities to infringe copyright have grown exponentially in the digital age,” says lawyer Joseph Petersen, a partner in the intellectual property department of New York City’s Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. “It’s so easy to copy and send. But if that article is behind a pay wall, for …