Translating a whole top ranked site

You are a little confused...

This is a "copywriting" forum... We are writers who create advertising copy designed to sell products, we aren't lawyers or "copyrighters"... We aren't experts on fair use laws and things like that.

As far as "fair use" of content, the people who create the content generally own the "copyright" and the legal ownership of said content.

Again, we're not lawyers... This is a forum of people who write advertising copy.

To be on the safe side, if you didn't create the content, or purchase the rights to it from a reliable source, it's probably a good idea not to use it.

-Scott

I'm calling B.S.

You asked if it was ok to translate a whole site from English into your native language. You said the design would be changed. You stated your intent to offer YOUR readers SOMEONE ELSE'S "useful and checked" information.

Let me be clear: If you are translating their words into any other language and posting those words on your site as yours - you are stealing. Stealing is unethical. Stealing is illegal.

The boundaries have been defined for you in the responses you've already received. Your intent was clear. The responses are equally clear.

If you lack the writing skills to create your own content/copy, there are other options open to you.

You can find thousands of articles and blog posts which contain useful content. Most article writers and bloggers are happy to have you post their content - with permission and attribution (they get credit as the writer and a backlink).

Or, you can hire a writer to crank out content for you. There are dozens of articles writers right here in the WF. I'd bet there's a WSO for content posted right now.

You obviously don't want to do either of those things. You want to take someone else's work and claim it as your own.