Email Fair Use

[Lincoln Keiser <lkeiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm new to the list and have a question I hope you all can help me with. I 
belong to a number of email chat groups. They state that posts are 
copyright protected and cannot be distributed outside the list without 
permission of the author. Recently the content of a post I wrote on one 
list was incorporated by someone in post written on another list without my 
permission. She did acknowledge that I was the author of the incorporated 
material. Is this a violation of  copyright laws, or does Fair Use protect 
her?

Thanks for taking the time to answer my question.

Linc