Let’s be clear the copyright does not protect quite as much as most people think it does – and you can use ANY information as a SOURCE.
Layouts, themes, news items etc, are pretty much written 100 times over with only scant changes …
We all see multiple examples of “almost the same item” in all news sources …
– Think of TV News channels – using the same sources.
– Think of newpapers printing the same Weather forecast, TV listings page.
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As an example …
I’m writing a match preview for Liverpool v Arsenal tonight.
I’ll get team news from one source, manager quotes from another, stats from a 3rd source and add in my own editorial.
now as much as 75% of that content has been sourced from other sites, but I will combine it and present it in a unique (and hopefully) original way.
But factual sections of it will have been simply cut n pasted.
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I’m not endorsing wholesale or complete reproduction of an item (be it press release, review, article or a news item) but blogs / myspace / delicious / and a 100 other “social network” websites are notorious for doing just that.
Anyone heard of You-tube ?
Sold for 1.4 billion dollars.
95% of that is rip-off content
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