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due to copyright issues, please could you post the link to the story only and not the article (or part thereof). thank you.

Vivi
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If we do that, then the post becomes useless as soon as the link is no longer valid.

yes, you're right.

but we need to avoid copyright issues, and so that's how it is, i'm afraid.

I think its ok to post entire articles from time to time as long as you aren't spamming the site.

What ever happened to Fair Use?

alex, can you make it absolutely clear as to what's acceptable and what's not, then?

i am confused - i did the work as you requested, and came up with the above, but am now unsure as to what you want, exactly.

On the planet I was supposed to go to,this discussion would have no meaning, because everyone shares everything there.

I read a news story in a national newspaper today about a 13 year old aspie who raped an 11 year old. It mentioned the lawyer said the rapist had aspergers, but no reason for it's inclusion for the article was given. I would probably be unable to find a link as the story was very small and wouldn't be easy to find, especially considering few details to help find an article were given. Would it be ok to pos the article in it's entireity?

In America (I don't know where this server is located, I didn't bother to whois it), as long as you provide sources for the article it's fine.

Think of it this way: you are writing a thesis. You can't put any quotes in the article even though you have quoted them? Of course you can.

Kind regards,
Chris

As an ex-journalist and a blogger -- granted, one from Canada -- I can tell you that you'll probably be safe from accusations of copyright theft if you do both of the following:

1) provide a difect HTML link to the story.
2) only copy and paste the *most* relevant parts of the story up for discussion or, maybe, the first three or so paragraphs.

Most of the time, people in the media business are too busy to go after Web sites and blogs for this sort of thing -- unless you're somehow making a profit from using their news stories, of course, or maybe offering something that's only meant to be available to subscribers only.

If a paper is offering the story to the Web for free, even for a limited time, they already know that it'll be passed around and shared. In fact, they pretty much *expect* it and derive a lot of prestige from it these days.

And for the atavistic Luddites among us: if you're quoting from a non-electronic source, just use a few relevant paragraphs (as opposed to the entire chapter) and reference the title and author. At least that's what I remember from Technical Writing 101.