Is contnet rewriting is ethical?

Is contnet rewrting is ethical n legal, as many blogger are doing nowdays?

 

Paraphrasing content is technically still plagiarism, unless a source is credited. In my personal opinion, it is neither ethical nor legal, and probably not worth much as far as benefits go.

 

Why would you want to focus on rewriting content anyway? Why not come up with something fresh and interesting of your own? If you can't do it, hire someone who can. Wouldn't it be far better to have a website with interesting, new content rather than re-hashing and plagiarizing someone else's work?

 

acewriter you are write..Im student and recently started hosting a web..im thinking to get a partner. I have a girl interested to start a site, i will ask her..

where comes to content rewriting. its still debatable. As above at you said, Its "Amoral" (Neither moral nor immoral)

 

If you spend a little time researching your niche/topic, you won't have to re-write anything.

This will give you enough info and ideas to write your own original content.

 

I am not supporting or advocating it, but rewriting saves a lot of time for webmasters.

Many many webmasters do that.

They just get cheap rewriters to create "unique" content.

This saves them both - time and money and allows them to focus on other tasks like SEO.

 

Here's a question I have always wanted to ask webmasters – Does rewritten content really work for websites? With the exception of certain kinds of websites, isn't it better to have fresh and well written content?

 

its good to write own articles. but this job only can be done by full time webmaster and logger..the part time publisher cant afford it. as im a student and trying to do part time..thats why i was asking about content rewriting..But so far i have not used any software like that..Im thinking to hire a person to write for me for long time at some percentage.

 

If you summarize a post or blog and link back too it i don't see whats wrong with that. However if you copy an entire blog post and run a thesaurus through every word longer than 5 chars then that definitly is not ethical.

 

I don't think it's too bad

Maybe on the bottom you could write "rewriiten by ____. original by ____."

a lot of people rewrite articles though.

 

Does rewritten content really work for websites?

I reckon if an article is rewritten well - it would work. I've rewritten articles that look/feel nothing like the original, but it depends on the writer, to be honest.

 

Not sure why people think citing a source makes it all "okay."

Citing is for when you reference a small nugget, not rewrite someone's work.

Yeah, it saves time. So does robbing a bank or running some other scam rather than working. What's your point?

Like it was pointed out above, you don't need to rewrite other people's material unless you are a freaking complete and utter idiot anyway.

There's so much information out there. Go read up on a subject and write about it.

 

No..content rewriting is fine so long as you dont copy them directly

 

Well I dont know whether rewriting is ethical or not but according to me one should give emphasis on fresh content and ideas as that will drastically enhance your website ranking and acceptance by google and other major search engines

 

Its violation of copyright act i think you can rephrase the things but exactly copying the content is illegal and unethical.

 

yea you are right. we learn from other , may be we learn form many sources then we summarize it in our words.. up to some extent every writer copy something. and if someone says he never copy anything. thats not true

 

Does that include articles based off personal experiences. It's creepy to think that someone's written about my being in the hospital and how it impacted my business...

 

What always shocks me about these threads is how many "writers" say it is OK to rip off other writers.

 

Rewriting someone else's work and claiming it as your own is a derivative work, and a copyright violation (in the US specifically) unless you have a license or permission. Anyone who says it's otherwise ethical has no business being in the writing / content field, and they probably won't remain players in the long-run (then again they're probably not "players" now anyway if they have to resort to that).

There's plenty of original content out there (and if anything, news is some of the most re-written -- not the most original -- as facts themselves can't be copyrighted so they're re-used all over the place when news strikes). What makes something original isn't whether it covers the same basic information as another article, and covering similar information doesn't make it a rewrite of something else in any way, shape or form. Original work is about style, voice, more personal input from experience, etc. -- the subtler aspects of a piece. People who don't understand that should probably stick to that sometimes illegal and less-than-ethical rewriting work, because until they "get it" they won't be able to truly write anyway.