A Word of Advice from Rose DesRochers: Copyright information
August 1st, 2006 by Rose DesRochers · 2 Comments
Do you post articles from news outlets to your blog or website in their full entirety? If you answered yes, are you aware that you are violating copyright laws?
A word of advice: You may want to reconsider not posting those articles in their full entirety.
Posting the first paragraph, first few sentences, or a quote from the article is fine, but posting the full article without permission from the source is a copyright violation.
I recommend quoting a few lines and then linking to the article with a read more.
Rose DesRochers
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2 responses so far ↓
Steve Reichard
// Aug 1, 2006 at 11:17 pm
This is a great helpful advice.
Bob!
// Jan 12, 2007 at 3:42 pm
I used to always just paste the whole article. I never claimed they were mine, but never gave thought to copyright. But it’s just not the right thing to do so I’ve stopped it now before I end up in court. It does look better if you only quote a paragraph or two at most then link to the full thing.
And I only started doing it properly after discussing it with Rose a while back and realising she is correct. This is very good advice.
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