Also, read this:
http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/faq-ip.php
Where it says, in part:
"Questions About Copyright
I found something interesting on someone else's blog. May I quote it?
Yes. Short quotations will usually be fair use, not copyright infringement. The Copyright Act says that "fair use...for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright." So if you are commenting on or criticizing an item someone else has posted, you have a fair use right to quote. The law favors "transformative" uses — commentary, either praise or criticism, is better than straight copying — but courts have said that even putting a piece of an existing work into a new context (such as a thumbnail in an image search engine) counts as "transformative." The blog's author might also have granted you even more generous rights through a Creative Commons license, so you should check for that as well. "
It's just not good net-etiquette to copy and paste entire articles. The article is not yours to publish.
On Nov 21, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Randolfe Wicker wrote:
The free distribution of copyrighted material on the Internet is very widespread. I personally copy and paste entire articles from the New York Times on nonprofit sites like The Immortality Institute www.imminst.org
The thinking is that since no one profits from this site, free sharing of information by people who have obtained it legally isn't a serious commercial offense.
I'm not sure the lawyers would agree with that. However, no one I know of has gotten any flack for violations of copyright when used in this manner.
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