If you are requesting permission to quote/duplicate texts: If you only want to quote a few sentences, you are more than welcome. Just mention the source in parentheses, as usual. If you want to duplicate one of my texts, it's a strange request: The text may change in the future (in fact, on my website texts change on a daily basis). Why would you want to duplicate a text that will rapidly become obsolete? I think it's wiser to just put a link to someone else's text rather than duplicate the text as it is on a given day. I think that was the whole point of the world-wide web... Google penalizes duplicate texts. It penalizes both texts. Anybody who gives you permission to duplicate their texts may not be aware that it will probably reduce their page ranking. Once you have published my text, i do not "own" the exclusive on that text anymore. For example, if i want to publish that text in a book, the publisher requires the exclusive rights. I think it is wiser and more effective to simply link to the original webpage rather than duplicate its text on your webpage. Thanks for your interest, piero