US copyright law works quite well here, thank you. It's just so easy to violate copyright on the web that many folks think it's okay. Well it isn't.
Copyrights are how writers, artists, musicians, and programmers earn their daily bread.
Violating copyright is theft, plain and simple. Online copyright is really no different from any other medium. The food writers on ArborFood granted permission to publish their material online. Those rights are not transferrable. But as any online publisher knows, the very act of browsing the web generates copies in readers' computer memory and on disc.