Copy, Paste, Append?

Was browsing the CBC.ca website the other day reading the news, and I came across an interesting (though, potentially, annoying feature).

Find an article, any article — and copy some of the text. Then paste it. CBC, has found a way to add on a ‘read more’ call to action, along with a link to their page.

Smart? I don’t know — when I want to learn more about a particular word or phrase, I typically copy and paste into google — now, I’m searching for the two words, along with the entire ‘Read More…’ plug, returning 0 search results.

“We have travelled for almost four months with much suffering and pain,” one of the letters says.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/08/16/tamil-migrant-ship-toews.html#ixzz127ZmYYsg

Now my question is — if I can add text like this, what’s stopping a website from changing what I’m copying all together. How about “I just lifted this entire paragraph from website XYZ!”

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