Am I violating Copyrights if I post an article on my blog?

As long as the readers now that "This is not my article" and "this is his/her article", would it be a violation to post their articles on my blog?

 

Yes. It's still illegal to publish someone else's article without permission or a license that specifically says you can publish it. Credit doesn't take the place of copyright.

 

The only exception to what is posted above is when you publish an article that has been provided from an article site or direct submission. These generally contain one or more links that the author has included.

 

Thanks. So if i grab it from places like ezine articles then it should be fine?

 

Any of the article sites are fine as long as you keep the links live. Ezines is one of many.

 

Awesome Thanks

 

Not really an "exception" - that falls under having a license.

But yes, you're fine using something from ezinearticles, as long as you follow their terms (leaving all links and such as-is, I believe limiting your yearly number of articles, and any other terms they have for publishers).

 

I see lots of websites who copy a big part of an article, and place a link like "read more about this article here" with a link to the original article.

 

You can also link back to the original author of the article

 

Truth is, it is not legal but many people do it everyday. Normally as long as you give a link back, you will not have much problems. I do not recommend using other peoples work but it is done everyday. Normally the worse thing that happens is that they demand it is taken down.

The best to make sure you will have no problem is just to email the author and ask permission.

 

Thanks for the info about grabbing it from third party sites, never really thought about it that way.

 

Its not legal?
Where and what is your source about that?!

 

Copyright law. You can't copy someone else's work without permission.

 

Show me your source, because people yelling a lot even they dont know anything about it.

 

I was going to add to this. While technically it may not be legal to post someone elses submission. As long as you give credit where credit is due and you dont expect the article to further any commercial gain most authors appreciate having their work murmured and it is completely up to the author to take any action against.

Never hurts to ask first though.

 

Usually it is not a problem (on the internet) as long as you attribute the author to the article. If the author does not want you to repost it, that would already be mentioned.

 

I agree...

 

If you link back saying that you got the article from the original site, there shouldn't be a problem.

 

Legally speaking, there is a problem with just providing links. Legally you have to get permission to post the article before you do it. Legally the person can sue you.

Just how aggressive the person is in protecting their intellectual property is completely different and a whole other issue.

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Here you go US Copyright Law There you can read all sorts of things on copyright, including the actual law. Read up, it may educate you

And if your looking for Trademark law US Patent and Trademark Office

 

I can't believe how many people are giving bad advice here, who honestly think a credit link makes it OK. In fact, it doesn't. HostLoneStar gave you your source. Read it. Rules are very similar in many countries (including places like the UK and India). If you're located elsewhere, read up on the laws where you are.

And even if you don't get sued for it, don't think it's OK because other people do it. I fairly regularly have people lose their hosting, lose their adsense and other ad network accounts, lose private advertisers, and get content banned from the major search engines for stealing my content - it's very easy to hit a content thief where it hurts.