Do links count in syndicated content?

[Ron10]

If I write a press release that goes viral and is syndicated all over do each of those links to my site in the syndications of the press release count and pass page rank with Google?

Or does Google only count the link in the original press release?  I heard that Google counts all the links for a time then eventually counts only one link from the original content and discounting all the other links as duplicate content. Any truth to this?

Thanks mozzers!

Ron10

[acs111]

In my experience the links still count. The original article should contain a canonical URL which declares it as the original.

We have had several articles shared and the links show up in opensiteexplorer.