Is it permissible to publish articles by well-known, reliable scholars in a non-commercial electronic magazine that aims to disseminate Islamic knowledge, and to merely mention the scholar's name below the article without consulting him?
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There is no need to ask permission from the authors of articles published online to transmit them, and their publication does not infringe upon their intellectual property rights. This is because placing them online signifies a desire for their benefit to be widely disseminated.
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