Should publishers restrict your ability to copy and paste highlighted sections in your favorite eBook?

mediabistro reporting:
Should publishers restrict your ability to copy and paste highlighted sections in your favorite eBook?  After underlining 25 passages in a brilliant Kindle book this weekend, this GalleyCat editor received a “Clipping Limit Exceeded” message and could not view (nor share) online the highlights he made inside a $13 eBook.
Here’s the  message: “For some books the publisher allows only a limited percentage of a book to be ‘clipped’ and stored separately from the main body of the book, as normally happens when you add a highlight. If you exceed this limit then you will see fewer highlights on this website than you actually marked on your Kindle. Popular Highlights are not counted towards this clipping limit.”

http://www.google.com/reader/view/feed/http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/feed/rss?source=ignitionfork

MH: this would no be good for text books or research