Does anyone know the legal status of the news stories that are copied and pasted onto this site? It strikes me as a potential problem when the site is released, since I don't believe that copyright law allows a story to be reproduced in full without express permission from the author/copyright owner.
Ok, this should be made clear somewhere. I would also recommend planning on removing any questionable articles prior to your release (most of the news article's I looked at appear to be copied from copywritten sources). Reply to comment
Right now when submitting a news story the following is stated:
"The body of the story. Preferably, this is in your own words, but if citing another article, this can also be the body of that article."
This should probably be replaced with something along the lines of: "The body of the story. This must be in your own words unless the story is in the public domain . If you do copy a story in the public domain be sure to site it properly" Reply to comment
After our call today, our decision is to pull the body field entirely, since we don't really have anything new to add to the story besides a nice, in-big-picture summary. The rest of the news will stay intact. Reply to comment
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This brings up a good issue that we'll need to address moving forward. Reply to comment
"The body of the story. Preferably, this is in your own words, but if citing another article, this can also be the body of that article."
This should probably be replaced with something along the lines of:
"The body of the story. This must be in your own words unless the story is in the public domain . If you do copy a story in the public domain be sure to site it properly" Reply to comment
I don't mean that the stories currently up will stay as-is. Their bodies will go away. Reply to comment
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