FindArticles.com ---- Maybe I am not sure how copyright works.

Discussion in 'Legal Issues' started by mnymkr, May 21, 2006.

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    I just found FindArticles.com for the first time. I was looking at their articles and I see all articles have a copyright by someone else (some other magazine) but then they also tell me I can link directly to that article from my site.

    So how can they use an article copywritten by someone else and then allow me to link to it?
     
    mnymkr, May 21, 2006 IP
  2. mjewel

    mjewel Prominent Member

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    Because they have obtained permission from the author or copyright holder to use their articles.
     
    mjewel, May 21, 2006 IP
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    ablaye Well-Known Member

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    You can link to it. That is not a copyright violation. To read the article, the person would have to go to the website where it is published. You can link to whatever you like as long as you do NOT reproduce the content itself to your website, you should be fine.
    If you copy the content of the article in your website, that is a copyright violation.
     
    ablaye, May 26, 2006 IP
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    Mystique Well-Known Member

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    That's right,

    In addition, when writers submit an article they are agreeing on the site posting their articles and users grabbing the code to display them as you do not remove the links or resource box.
     
    Mystique, May 27, 2006 IP
  5. DomainMagnate

    DomainMagnate Illustrious Member

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    wisegeek is a very popular site.. he's a pemium publisher so I suppose it receives over a million visits a day.

    interesting to see where all their links are from
     
    DomainMagnate, May 27, 2006 IP