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sometimes, i copy the news and other informative articles from different sites on my site for my visitors and i do display exact soure link from where i have copied the contents. so i am not stealing any contents and i do give full links etc details at the end so that visitors can visit the original source of the contents.
is it allowed? i think sites from where i am copying contents shouldn't have any problem with it as i am displaying their exact links with their contents.
how do you see this?
thanks
wether or not you have a link to them at the end it' still wrong and they can use the law against you ..
( you have to have their written permission to use anyones material ..there are a very few exceptions to this ..your kind of only semi-parasitic site isn't one of them )
make your own original content ..because what you are doing is stealing their content
Better hope they don't have a registered copyright as they can then get your for punative damages as well.
Yes, you are. You are a thief. There is no other way to describe it.
so i am not stealing any contents
As said before: Yes, you are stealing content.
You might want to post a short summary of the articles or new postings and then link back to the original source. You should probably write the summary in your own words though.
anyway, I was looking for advise as I had doubts in mind and thanks for showing me the right path, i will stop copying their contents in my news area.
this is not an adsense site it is an educational site where i wanted to give updates about different technologies to my visitors to help them in their studies and research.
thanks for your replies.
It is a violation of copyright to copy and post full articles someone else wrote, even if you give the link to the site you got it from. I would be upset to find one of my articles copied on another site without my permission.
What you can do is email the webmaster of a site for permission to use their article. Or, give a brief summary of what the article is about, and maybe just copy a few sentences (like 3 or 4), and then say, "go to [nameofsite...] to read the article in full.
You yourself now say you had doubts about this but insisted that you were not stealing. To be honest, I would have had more respect for someone that came on here and said: "Look, I'm using other people's content, I know it's stealing but in all honesty what is the worst that could happen to me?"
Harsh or not, what has been written has (apparently) made you change your mind and for that I am thankful. I have no doubt, if you are truly a designer, that you would feel the same way if someone "borrowed" your personally-created designs for their business.
I thank you that you bothered to reply to my thread.
anyway, thanks __granny for the nice explaination and tip, i am indeed interested in copying the latest happenings from a site and i will send them email and i hope they will not mind it as i am copying it for educational use and they are providing latest news about different technologies.
... but anyway. Since you are fairly new to this forum, I would suggest that you do some reading here about duplicate content issues and how that may affect your site or the ones that you are asking to copy from.
Secondly, I would think an alternative idea would be to contact the people who wrote the original articles, to say that you are impressed with them and to ask them to cover a specific area in more detail that would be of interest to your visitors and to offer a credit and link back to their site in return for the article. That is quite a common practice and it avoids having the same content on a number of sites.
i will stop copying their contents in my news area.
Not only had you better stop copying other people's content without their permission, you'd also better remove all stolen content from your site. If you don't, you could find yourself in receipt of a lot of DMCA notices.
Stever is right. Most of us don't take kindly to our hard work being used by others too lazy to create their own content.
You'll do yourself and your site a big favour by doing what another poster has already suggested - comment on a few lines of the article and provide a link to the original. Spend the rest of your time writing your own original articles and build up an audience who appreciates you for what you write instead of gaining a reputation for pinching the fruits of others labour.
That being said, as already mentioned, a person should make a brief summary of what an article discusses, and then give the link for people to read the article in full.
Some people in this thread are being too harsh and confrontational.
with fellow webmistress, i am not an idiot coming from jungle to ask something here i am a web developer too and i know as much as any other webmaster here knows
we judge each other here by our actions , our posts , our experience ( and femaledesigners past posts say "newbie" ..nothing wrong with that we all were ..but posting as a selfconfessed and obvious newbie last year 19 dec 2006 [webmasterworld.com] .and then after less than 20 posts claiming to know as much as anyone here is "coming it a bit" ..huh! )..and attitude
stealing is stealing ..
asking pro's to condone it is naive ..
[edited by: Leosghost at 12:09 pm (utc) on Jan. 9, 2007]
now let me address leoghost: you did lots of research on me, i am thankful to you for this. but tell me only one thing.. when you joined this forum were you a perfect idiot or did know some stuff? your answer will justfiy that is it necessary that every new user of some forum is a beginner... you might search me on phpfreaks, myspace, orkut and devshed to find who Natasha is ;)
anyway, no hard feeling and thanks for your reply to my thread. my problem is solved and this thread was realy helpful to finish my doubt and correct my path about what i was doing.
you did lots of research on me
I just want to make sure that no one is misled ..
who you are .?
I dont care .. it isnt important ..
but instant experts are a dime a dozen ..here and on other fora ..
Boo hoo borrowing (stealing) someone's written material is horrible and you'll burn in hell. Yeah, like you haven't stolen someone's idea. Please, most of us (99 percent) have violated copyright laws. Look...every living human being eventually violates some sort of copyright law. Whether it's for a report, clichés, or for your wonderful web site. How can you not? Stealing text (sentences) big deal go for it. Heck, copy this and paste it elsewhere I don't care. Web Master World may care...but not me.
[edited by: Leosghost at 5:34 pm (utc) on Jan. 9, 2007]
weird how at least one poster who thinks it's ok runs adsense ..why am I not surprised ..it made all the worms come out of the woodwork and onto the net ..and now they all want a right to live off the work of the rest of us ..and not to be called on it ..
edited for clarity
[edited by: Leosghost at 5:43 pm (utc) on Jan. 9, 2007]
