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Just having the copyright, however, doesn?t mean that other people can?t quote your work. They may do so, as long as you are given full credit for having written it prior to their use. This is called a ?reference? or a ?citation? and generally, whatever passage is being quoted will appear offset in quotation marks (so that the reader can visualize which words belong to someone other than the author of the text in which the quote appears). Of course, at present the contingent of Copyright Police is not up to tracking down every single instance of copyright infringement, and chances are that not everyone cites original authors as scrupulously as they should, so beware of whom you casually let look at or read your text (or to whom you give a copy).
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