| Ka-pi96 said: 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. |
"Fair Use for Forums (and How to Explain to Your Members That They Can’t Quote Entire Articles)
It’s important to be proactive on matters of content theft and copyright infringement. A large part of this is text quoted from other sources. With some exceptions (public domain works, works by the Federal Government, works released under alternative licenses to copyright, and more), you can’t allow your members to post entire text articles that they did not author or hold no rights to, source or no source." http://www.managingcommunities.com/2010/02/07/fair-use-for-forums-and-how-to-explain-to-your-members-that-they-cant-quote-entire-articles/
10 Big Myths about copyright explained
"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.)"
"Copyright is still violated whether you charged money or not, only damages are affected by that."
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html#dmca
What Every Writer Ought to Know about Fair Use and Copyright
"In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:
- the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
- the nature of the copyrighted work;
- the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
- the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.”
