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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tburdett" data-source="post: 326956" data-attributes="member: 4714">It's easy to say that, but in the real world, there is very little (effectively no) protection for unattributed works.  You can print and distribute freely (freely meaning for no profit or cost, no usage or access fee, in other words - totally free) and there will be no sanction against you, legal or otherwise.Give me just one case that shows a legal sanction against someone freely distributing an unattributed (bearing no copyright or trademark or any other identifying information) document (for no profit or cost, no usage or access fee, in other words - totally free) and I'll happily admit that I'm wrong.  I can't find one and I don't think that there is one.I'm not saying that this is right or ethical, or that this represents what the law may state, or that this is they way that things should be, but it is the way that things are."Should" is a fine word, but it rarely accomplishes anything.Discussions like this never result in anything beyond what we've already reached here.  You believe that there is protection for these documents and I believe that, regardless of what the law may state, there really isn't.</blockquote>