October 6, 2005 at 5:04 pm
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There are feeds that you can get permission to use on your site. There are articles that you can get permission to use on your site. There are strategy documents you can get permission to use on your site. Notice the common word, permission.
Free speech? What does free speech have to do with copyrighted material? Nothing, with the exception that you have the right to write whatever you want if it is original.
Anything that is written that is original is considered copyrighted as soon as it is written. There is no justification or argument to using it without permission. It is theft. Do not do it.
Of course my first response didn’t say much. It simply said everything you needed to know in response to your question. Now I have expanded it.