Hi, I wanted to know if an copyright article from a site is published on another site with a link back to that site, is it still copyright infringement.
Adding a link doesn't get someone off the hook for copyright infringement. You can't use someone's content if you don't get their permission. If someone did that to your content, just ask them to remove it, and send a cease and desist notice if they don't.
The link back is the minimum thing you can do, and most websites will appreciate that But without permission, it is still infringement as Jenn said. Unless the sites themselves openly endorse it, that is.
Indeed, link back is usually appreciate so make sure to read any site's terms to determine if you can take content, whether owners ask for a link or not. If the content is yours, decide if you want to be kind enought to share content since they are linking back, or follow Jenn's advice as already noted.
Take an article from my sites without permission (link or not) and Google, Yahoo, MSN and your host get a DMCA notice two minutes after I find out. I don't waste my time asking owners politely to take down my work, I'd rather just get your site taken down. People who do that know what they're doing is wrong.
Excellent strategy. So many webmasters think they can do whatever they want, because company X will notify them first. (read: Getty Images) By the way, I'm not referring to the original poster in any way. OP was simply asking a great question. Don't send nice remove letters, bill em.
From what I know, fair use applies only to the level that it doesn't take away from the value of the owners orginal article. So a person can allow others to do such (if that's their desire), but if they ask for one to stop, they must stop. Although when it comes down to it, one can use a small part of that article, as long as they source that information. Again it must not devalue the original article.
I told this before, what if the people ignore they are doing something wrong? Sometimes people purchase stolen content from a third party in the belief they are getting originals. Their only guilt is good faith.
You are responsible for what's on your network. While many companies might believe that--if you act fast--they don't have to. If you indeed purchased stolen content, you'll need to take that up with that party, but it wouldn't excuse you from paying damages if the case is won. There wouldn't be any IP lawsuits if that's all you had to say.
So what if you're discussing some topic in a forum, and you quote a snippet to support your argument, for example, giving the source (so other members would believe you actually were quoting from some assumably reliable source). Is that copyright infringement? Also, Google et al regurgitate snippets of nearly everybody's sites, which they've taken by crawling & caching. Is this also copyright infringement?
No, it's not copyright infringement to use a "snippet" or small portion of copyrighted text generally if, like in your example, you're using it as a source to back up something. Citing it is definitely necessary though. You just can't act like the words are yours.
What do you do specifically & what isa DMCA notice? Do you have a form letter you'd like to share with us?
Ah, yes that makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up for me, as I do frequently do this, as do the others participating in the debate.
And the fact that they were too lazy to run the articles through copyscape before paying for them. I don't have the time or inclination to play games with people, especially when most people are well aware that their content is stolen (or should).