Hi LonesomeTwin,
Copyright really isn't as bad as that and there are even special leniences for non-commercial educational applications, even if original text is copied verbatim. Plagiarism is a different case entirely, but it generally applies if you try to pass off someone elses entire work, copied verbatim, as your own original efforts.
As Helen suggested, we're certainly not looking to copy text directly from other sources. Although it would be great if we could do this, because then we could simply build the facts pages by cutting and pasting from other websites and it would only take a few minutes.
In essence, copyright covers the creative expression of ideas, rather than the actual ideas (or facts) themselves. So it's OK to read a paragraph of text and re-write the facts using your own original expression.
Anyway, before I start to ramble off topic too much, we've set up a bees page today so you should now be able to start adding comments on the page straight away.
http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/wi...rtebrates/bees
Cheers
Stuart