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I would like to ask is it possible for us to use articles from other sites like yahoo(news), bbc(news)... to publish on our sites. If yes, how and in what condition ?

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It depends on where you are getting it...but more often than not, you cannot legally use news articles from other websites...Take Yahoo for example...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/.../mccain_iraq_1

Scroll down to the very bottom of that page and you will find the text

Here is BBC's

Now...people do this all the time (use news articles from other websites)...what they do is link to the original article and make note of the source of that article...but even then, they are not using the article properly (legally) and can very easily get in trouble for it.

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Don't even try, it's usually illegal. If you want to include content from other websites like yahoo or BBC, just get their RSS feed and put it in your site.

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I think there is a 10% rule that exists here.

You can copy (Quote) 10% and link to the article... and if your using it on your site your probably going to want to coment on it.

I do this on my site.

It works out in the best interest for everyone, you get to back up your views buy referencing an article... the BBC, Yahoo, MSN etc.. news provider get more 'viewers' as they are curious about the article and click through.


I think this is legal... but for sure blatent cutting and pasting of the whole article could get your knuckles smacked.

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Technically, CreditCrunch, that is not any more legal than copying the entire article itself...The copyrights say that you cannot copy any of the content...they don't say that it's ok if you only copy part of it.

Now...people do this every day and never get in trouble for it...odds are, you will never get in trouble for it either - but that does not make it ok.

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Wow, i see loads of forums copying news articles, that is Illegal!

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Fair Use: Fair use is generally a short excerpt and almost always attributed. (One should not use much more of the work than is needed to make the commentary.) It should not harm the commercial value of the work -- in the sense of people no longer needing to buy it (which is another reason why reproduction of the entire work is a problem.)

Google for Fair Use and Copyright.

'Fair use' is part of copyright law, as far as I can see allows you to quote excerpts as part of your analysis. It 'fair use' was not allowed, freedom of speech could be at risk.

So, lifting entire articles would be a no no. Depends on what your doing.

So be careful and write most of the stories in your own words.

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Right, and who defines fair use? You? No, not you...the courts define fair use. They don't make the law, they interpret it.

Fair use, to me, suggests that you cannot republish or reuse copyrighted material if the material you are using is a substantial portion of the original...well, the first few sentences of an article are always the most important...One of the rules of journalism is to write sentences in order of importance.

Fair use is a very vague issue and you are better off not taking any chances. Write your own articles or just link to other articles...don't risk publishing parts or whole articles without asking permission first. My guess is that if you were to ask a news website if you could republish the first few sentence of their articles and link to the rest, they'd be more than happy to let you...but if you do this without asking first, you are subject to getting in a lot of trouble...even if you think that it is "fair use".

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I was under the impression that you can quote the AP all day long. If you write an article, you can base it partly or entirely on information that you get from another article, as long as the information source is identified. This is how local newspapers and news channels can legally use information from reuters and other news providers, like AP. But like I said, that is only my impression, I don't really know.

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I believe that you have to pay a subscription fee to be able to use articles written by the Associated Press...when you see the same articles in various magazines and websites which were written by the AP, those magazines and websites have paid a fee to republish those articles...and if they haven't paid that fee, they have no right to publish the articles...that is, at least, the impression that I have always been under

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