I'm not sure if the title compliments the thread - but here goes.
If I read a news article and like it, am I in breach of copyright if I use that to create an article on my site which is written by me based on the original article?
I'm not sure if the title compliments the thread - but here goes.
If I read a news article and like it, am I in breach of copyright if I use that to create an article on my site which is written by me based on the original article?
I Do Website Design - but I am here to learn all about publishing
It will come down to how much you copy from the article - that is a straight copy word for word - if you do copy some, a quote say, then you need to reference the original work.- Blogs do that "so and so said such and such " and this is what I think.
If you re write the article so it is not recogniseable as the source and add your take on the story then there should be no breach of copyright - but you may still want to reference the original to give your article credability with your readers.
If it's a big news story thats on every big news site I wouldn't bother, just read them all and post your own report. If the story is only on one news site I would write my own report and give them the credit.
I'd say John's idea's pretty good. It's always best to spread out your research, so you get all the juicy bits of info the other sites have. I think it's what most news sites do anyways.
And using other sites news articles as your content's practically just called 'blogging' now.
You can quote the story, but you definately can not legally repost it.
One of the things I do with my blog is read lots of news stories. If its relevent then I will post a quote from it with a link. Because I specifically focus on website publishing I often know lots of things that the originally article did not mention.
For example, when Weblogs Inc. was bought by AOL for $25 million everyone as reporting it. I had been actually following Weblogs Inc. very close for months simply because I knew they were doing things very right. When the story broke, I was able to write substantially more about it than all of the articles could.
Last edited by Cutter; 10-25-2005 at 10:54 AM.
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Yes, quote some and keep it under Fair Use. I meant that that's what blogs do.
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