quoting text from another web site

is there a way to do this with html?

[privacyfanatic]

OK... I had a thought. I looked briefly at an html primer site and didn't see anything resembling my idea. I searched here for "quoting text" and only found one post which didn't address the issue.

First of all... let's say I like an image at another website. I *could* right-click and save the image to my machine and then use <IMG SRC= "wwWebmasterWorldebsite.com/whatever.jpg"> on my webpage to display the image. But that's illegal.

So what most would do it is <IMG SRC="www.theirwebsite.com/whatever.jpg">

But what if I wanted to quote a block of text that's on another website? So far I can only copy it and paste it into my webpage with the source and hope that it falls within "fair use" provisions.

I could, alternativly, put a *link* to the other site's page, but then the user would need to click it and then scroll down (unless there was a named anchor) and try and find the paragraph themself.

I think it would be cool to use html to do this...

IOW, if you wanted to quote another paragraph you would do something like this...

<BLOCKQUOTE> SRC="www.theirsite.com/whatever.html#someanchor"
mid(1 50)>
</BLOCKQUOTE>

<BLOCKQUOTE> would not be <BLOCKQUOTE> as we know it but be modified to accept the SRC parameter, and a mid parameter where 1 is the starting character position and 50 is the length of the string (like visual basic's "Mid" keyword)

The result would be, not a *link* to the text, but an actual *display* of the text. But since it's not copied and pasted, but comes directly from the theirsite.com server, it's not violating copyright laws and you could make the length parameter as high as you want and not violate "fair use" provisions.

It would neccesitate the use of a named anchor of sorts in the other website's page. Or maybe a "named paragraph", which as of date, there is no such thing.

Is there already something like this? Do you think it's a good idea?

[privacyfanatic]

Something happened after I posted the message above..

in the second paragraph "wwWebmasterWorldebsite.com" is not what I typed in.

I typed in "www dot my web site dot com" - no spaces.

I think they're trying to prevent a person's advertising their own site, so they do that when that phrase appears.

But that wasnt't my intention (obviously).

[tedster]

The <blockquote> approach does not work, but one way you can do this is with an iframe. However, you are still presenting someone else's property on your page and the right approach is to have persmission.

Also a comment, hot-linking to an image on someone else's
server is also a kind of theft and uses their bandwidth.