Copyright, What articles can I post?
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Can I post any news article and provide the link to it? Is that alright? For example, if I want to post a cnn.com article, can copy it and provide the url and post it? Thanks much. :)
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No, that is illegal and will also get your blog removed.
What you CAN do is summarize an article and/or take a snippet (no more than 1/4, typically) and link to the rest. For an example of that, see here:
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its legal or illegal depending on the licence the source of your news (in this context cnn.com) publishes the content under.
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CNN.com does not put articles into the Public Domain. Press releases are a different story, obviously.
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You should check the licence of the sites/news you want to use. If they don’t state it, the cautious default – sensible – position is to ask first.
This goes both ways, should someone want to copy what you write.
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