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beth_lk
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Posted: 2008-Feb-05 02:25
I am not sure where else to post this in general question.
If you find an article, news clip, video etc. is it legal to post it on your site? Giving full credit to the owner and even a link back to the source?
To be more specific - is it legal without emailing, calling, contacting in any way the writer/owner of such information and acquiring permission?
Example: your surfing and find a video, article, new clip what ever that pertains to the subject area of your site, can you copy it there?
So main question is it legal?
Second question: will site with said content on be considered duplicate content? well OK of course it will - but to what extent?
I have a idea to put specific information all on one site that normally people would have to surf all over to find - but none of it would be my own information or source. I would just be the one putting all this on to one site?
Thoughts?
Is This Legal ? Is This Allowed? Is This Wrong?
PS: I am adding this, as I want to be more clear on what I am asking.
A good example is: weird news web sites. They post news/ crimes/court hearings/ arrests etc in the form of articles, videos and such and from what I find they post pretty specific content from their sources.
[ Message was edited by: beth_lk 02/04/2008 07:00 pm ]
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Quadrille
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Posted: 2008-Feb-05 04:46
If you publish the entire story on your site, without permission, you would likely be breeching copyright. The way around it would be to publish a brief retelling of the story, with a reference (link) back to the original. It's ok to use bits for reference or review purposes, but not all.
Think about it; you'd not be happy if great chunks of your hard work appeared elsewhere!
With videos, many have an invitation to 'embed' the video on your site (eg most youtube videos do). If there's no such invitation, then you'd need to seek permission.
Again, it would be acceptable to publish a sample, with a link. I'm not sure of how much would be the acceptable norm' - but I'd guess no more than 10% or 30 seconds (whichever was longer). But that's a guess!
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beth_lk
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Posted: 2008-Feb-05 04:53
Thanks Quadrille - that was my thought was well - to post a summary or heading paragraph of sorts and then to have the full article/resource etc in a link...
I did some more research on this and the 2 subjects I followed are recalls and weird news - both post info in full and a link back to original site/posting.
Maybe as news and recalls ( which is kind of news ) is public domain - does anyone know if that is true?
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mj1256
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Posted: 2008-Feb-05 17:28
follow the Digg model
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Quadrille
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Posted: 2008-Feb-05 17:45
News *fact* are public domain, but a news *story* on another site almost certainly is not; there'll likely be a copyright note at the page foot - but even if there is not, the story will belong to the original writer / publisher until they choose otherwise.
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