Ka-pi96 said:
Pretty sure it would be covered by fair use so is completely legal and anybody suing somebody for it is just wasting money on legal fees for a case they aren't going to win. |
It's not fair use. If you write an article, it belongs to you (or the publisher). It cannot legally be published elsewhere without permission.
Righthaven initially entered agreements concerning old news articles from Stephens Media, publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, based on a business model of suing bloggers, other Internet authors, and Internet site operators for statutory damages for having reproduced the articles on their sites without permission.[9] An affiliate of Stephens Media owns half of Righthaven.[10] As of 24 March 2011, 255 cases have been filed.[11][12] Typically, Righthaven has demanded $75,000 and surrender of the domain name from each alleged infringer, but accepted out of court settlements of several thousand dollars per defendant.[13] As of December 2010 approximately 70 cases had settled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Righthaven
Righthaven died, which made everyone happy, but that was because of a different issue. It was ruled that only the publishers themselves had the right to sue.
