posting news and content from other sources?

[juice]

I'm wondering what the oppinion is on posting news and content from other sources to blog type affiliate/marketing sites..

for example.. a newspaper writes an article about mlm offers and lists a guide to safely using these offers.. is it wrong to repost this story to a blog with a link back to the original source? or if this leads to problems is it best to just to link to the original story with a summary of the article..

not sure if this is completely relevant but I was curiosu if others had considered this or could offer advice. I do not want to start off on the wrong foot and face problems down the road from using others news articles.

[totter]

From what little I understand, reposting this article would be wrong. Reposting it with a link is still wrong.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but if it were a simple list of MLM offers than it would be ok to repost it?

[juice]

I guess to clarify my reasoning.. often times news stories from news outlets online have the stories disappear after a period of time or links often change.. I was hoping to archive some articles on my local site to keep track of them..

I see a lot of sites redisplaying news articles on their local sites (google news is one) and other lesser sites.. they often paste the story into their own block/format and give a "posted from such and such daily.. <original site here>" with the full article or interview..

[wrgvt]

The article's copyright belongs to the publisher or the author. Copying the article verbatim to your site without permission is a copyright violation. That doesn't mean that others aren't doing that, but if the copyright owner files a DMCA complaint with Google and other search engines, nobody is going to find your site once you're removed from the index.

I've had entire book reviews I've written, with my byline, posted on other sites or message boards. I e-mail the webmasters and ask them to remove it. They always say they will, and then do nothing. It's only after I file a DMCA complaint that they finally disappear.

[dickbaker]

Yep, that's asking for complaints about copyright infringement.

I have a "news" section on my site. Some of the articles I have are ones that I've received permission from the authors to post.

Others are re-writes of news stories from the major media. It takes more time to re-write a story, but the time factor outweighs the risk of copyright infringement. If I need to use a quote, I'll phrase it giving credit to the newspaper that originally published the story. For example: in an interview with the New Big Newspaper, Joe Politician said, "I believe in the future of..."