> For all you know, their purpose in copying text from the page is to illustrate
> in a document that aspect of the page layout that includes the controls.

That's very true.

> A more elegant & bulletproof solution might be to rethink the page layout and
> visually place the controls above or to the left of the heading to allow the
> natural text flow to exclude them from selection. If the controls look like 
> they're
> in the middle of the copyable text, a user with browsing experience will
> naturally worry that the controls will get copied along with the text, 
> diminishing
> very slightly their sense of trust in the intuitiveness of the design.

Also very true - this is what I think I would prefer to do given the
opportunity.


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