Dear Barbara Patterson: I'm not sure what is going on here. I do know however that if we start negative talk re "permission" and "legal fees"in regards repeating or "lifting" messages from a public bulletin board, we are going to scare off many contributors and sound a death knell to this wonderful public way of teaching and learning about Parkinsons. If you elect to "publish" something on a "public" electronic bulletin board it must mean that you want to get feedback from the public. You can of course always elect to keep it private. But feedback is not a one way street. Once the ideas are "out there" anyone can use them. That is precisely the value of this PD internet list. Once ideas jell into a "finished work" published under copyright protection it is a different story, but that is not what we "seekers of the truth" are doing on this board. Regards, Barbara Yacos <[log in to unmask]>