Bleary-eyed I didnt notice it was copy written and reordered some of it. Copyright is the default, not the exception. Unless there's an explicit declaration that copying is OK (e.g. Creative Commons, other licenses ), you should assume you can't copy it. She gets no sympathy from me. In fact, her comments just push me further from her side.
That is true for the US, not necessarily the rest of the world. Not disagreeing with your point, just want to help out anyone that would take away what you said as hard fact.
The Berne Convention requires its signatories to recognize the copyright of works of authors from other signatory countries (known as members of the Berne Union) in the same way as it recognises the copyright of its own nationals. For example, French copyright law applies to anything published or performed in France, regardless of where it was originally created.
Additionally, The Berne Convention makes copyright automatic in countries which observe it. This image, also from Wikipedia, shows the Berne signatories in blue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berne_Convention_signatori...
While my post is "not necessarily [true] for the rest of the world," it is true for an awful large portion of it.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protec...