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Lawlight on 14 October 2015
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Ka-pi96 said:
pokoko said:
Ka-pi96 said:
pokoko said:
I agree. Copying the full article is unethical and disrespectful. It's also illegal--people HAVE been sued for it.

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.

Fair use covers news reporting and allows as much use as needed to get the point accross, obviously less is preferred but still.

The case you put there is not an example of what we are talking about. That quite clearly says people put those articles on THEIR sites, as in they owned the site and were reproducing that content with the intent of making money from views of it. That would be like VGC posting actual articles that are just copy/pastes of somebody elses articles. We aren't talking about that though, we are talking about random people posting articles on forums with no intent to gain money, they are solely doing it for the purpose of news reporting so yeah, it's fair use.


So, we're ok to post full articles?