Hi Friends, I was just wondering if it was legal to just take any article in full from the reuters website and post it on your own website with a link to the original source at the bottom??? For example,check this: http://www.cricbuzz.com/component/l...akistan-outclass-Bangladesh-in-series-opener/ Is it ok to do that? Will this not cause any copyright infringement? Thanks
As far as I know, you can't take content from Reuters verbatim. Reuters is a wire agency and as such, it has paying subscribers including newspapers and television companies. Unless you pay for the content that you get from Reuters, you may put yourself, your business or your website at risk. Best to contact Reuters for their available plans. One way to "go around" this rule, though, is if you take a news item from Reuters and comment on it (without forgetting to include the news URL). In other words, develop an opinionated blog entry around that news piece.
Even commenting on it doesn't give you the right to publish it in full. You can comment on an article by simply linking to it elsewhere rather than posting it. If you want to use one of their articles, you have to pay them. Go to the article directly on their site, and click the reprint link near the top for pricing options - with the one I just looked at, they charge varying fees based on how long you want it live on your site. I'm sure they have completely separate subscription options for the larger sites using a lot of their content.
^ Hi Jenn, I wanted to say that you could "comment" on the news piece but don't publish it in full. Left this one out, sorry Mickscool --- Just highlight a few sentences off the original piece. You can't republish. The media outlets I work for pay Reuters every month. I think they pay a lesser amount (since we have exchange deals and stuff).
In early 2000 you were allowed to post syndicated feeds expressly formatted by Reuters for such purpose, but only if posted on personal, non-profit websites. This service was discontinued a while back.
I think you can source link at bottom. it means your content's source is another site but not duplicate...many time i see..i think google also approve source link. but at last you must write your own content so write now, y you wait and copy from other.
If you mean they can publish the article as long as there's a source link, that's a common misconception, but it isn't true. It's illegal whether you include a link or not.
You can't take anything from anywhere verbatim. There is a law that was put in place like 8 years ago that everything is copyrighted on the internet.