User talk:Professormendoza

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Copyright issue
Thanks for adding information to the article on the Alternative Investment Market, however, I notice that it is copied from the paper - ''Mendoza, Jose Miguel, "Securities Regulation in Low-Tier Listing Venues: The Rise of the Alternative Investment Market" (August 2007). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1004548 Section III b p.37''. I assume that the paper was written by you. Unless Wikipedia has recieved permission from you to reproduce the article it falls foul of WP copyright guidelines and will be deleted. Please understand that we do this in order to protect the copyrights of authors who do not wish their work submitted to Wikipedia, and do not mean to inconvenience those who do. See Copyright and Not and if you have further questions, please post on Wikipedia talk:Copyright problems.

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