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I believe i cant just copy and paste articles from news agencies
but i see some websites do that.
Seriously, some people may be violating copyrights by doing it. Others may be paying a licensing fee to the source to use it (the way many newspapers do with Reuters and AP). Still others may have other agreements, such as displaying the first paragraph of the content and linking back to the source.
The best way is to contact the news source directly and ask what their policy is.
Without being too specific, what type of news stories are you after? Entertainment; business; niche widgets; celebs/people; science; tech; national; regional; political..?
Syzygy
[edited by: Syzygy at 10:46 am (utc) on Mar. 6, 2009]
I want to add health news articles on my site. how do i do that in a legitimate way?
1/ Journalists go out and provide reportage on something.
2/ Stories are sent to journalists.
The key to enlightenment lies via the second way and that oft derided source of knowledge, the press release.
Every day 1,000's of news items are sent out to media sources in the form of press releases by all sorts of organisations. In the 'health' sector (and I'm making a broad assumption that your areas of interest will include healthcare and medical issues) those organisations will include:
* companies
* health-related institutions
* governing/advisory bodies
* governments
* research institutions (universities, for example)
* consumer bodies
* health-related media.
Every day these sources will be putting out new news stories about such things as:
* health-related products
* health-related services
* health-related science/research
* health-related technology
* health-related guidelines
* health-related trends
* topical health issues at a local, regional, national and international level
* forthcoming events such as conferences.
The best thing to do is to make a start in identifying the organisations in the first list. Contact the press/media relations office (99 out of 100 organisations will have a link on their website) and ask to be added to their press mailing lists. In some instances the organisations may put you in contact with their PR company. Great; invariably the PR company will have other clients in similar sectors. Get added to these press mailing lists, too.
There are a number of key websites that serve as distribution hubs for the latest science, medical and technology news. Find these (sorry, you'll have to do that by yourself) and scan them every day for the latest developments in your areas of interest.
With a bit of effort you'll have a steady trickle of news coming in to you. How you publish it is up to you.
Hope that helps a bit.
Syzygy
Excellent if you don't mind running duplicate content and being filtered into the supplementals.
For example, I've just done a search using a unique sentence from one of their stories. Google returns just one result along with the dreaded "...we have omitted some entries..." barricade.
"Repeat the search with the omitted results included", and there are a whole host of sites carrying exactly the same story.
The one story not filtered? The original source of the news item.
Be afraid, be very afraid!
Alternatively, create unique news content using the techniques laid out above. ;-)
Syzygy
Syzygy
You really stepped into it with this topic. This is one of the hottest issues in our biz today.
Here's a link to a "funny" article from today where one online newsletter published by Dow Jones (AllThingsDigital) is revising its policies about offering and linking after reading what critics--including the owner of Dow Jones--said about borrowing, many of which ATD practiced on some pages:
[kara.allthingsd.com...]
I suggest what AllThingsDigital is now doing may be a pretty good guide to what is allowed today, but your mileage may vary. I would add that "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" in this case means, ask permission if it is not clear if the news shouldn't be borrowed.
(What I do is offer headlines clearly labeled coming from the news source via their RSS feed with a widget. Sends the news folks traffic. But, then, we are not competing for the same ad dollars either.)
I would suggest to rewrite the articles to add value. A critical view would be better. Text is copyrighted, but not the idea. There are free tools to compare articles if they are similar in the copyright sense.
If you need links, please, send me a sticky mail.
As yet though they haven't given any clear outline as to what they're actually going to do!
There's a lot of hot air and little, indeed nothing, in the way of substance. Posturing, some would call it. And my feeling is that at present the posturing is for the benefit of the many members who make up AP.
At the same time, one could construe that a nice pincer movement is being played out with Google et al as the intended victims: news publishers to the left, news wires to the right...
I'll look forward to when they go beyond this phase and get down squeezing a bit harder.
Syzygy
[edited by: Syzygy at 8:47 pm (utc) on April 27, 2009]
When and if the AP decides that I don't think that it will bode well for them.
The AP recently claimed in an interview with Ars Technica that they routinely take facts and attribution from others and build articles around them..
Dishonest and hypocritical and unethical on the AP's part, especially since they want to deny the same right to others.
If this every does go to court then the AP is likely to lose big, the American public take freedom of speech very seriously and they are not likely to take kindly to a big media monopoly from taking liberties with it.
