Rewrite News Articles?

by appie
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Hello warriors,

I have a question. Let say you want to start a news sports blog. So You get your news articles from other sites example:bbc.com/sports. What is allowed and what not.

I think that you can rewrite the articles and post them on your site. Underneath you write resource the site you got the article from.

Do you need to link back like this or just write the site?
Like this: http://warriorforum.com or just warriorforum.com

Thank you very much,

Appie
#articles #news #rewrite
  • Profile picture of the author kaytav
    You will have to put the link. Just plain text is not giving credit to the original site. It will be best if you could write the news article yourself instead of copying.
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    • Profile picture of the author appie
      Why I am asking this is because a great blog that I like to read does it this way or I am looking at it wrong.

      WhatsApp arrives on Windows Phone 8 - GSMArena Blog

      This is the resource they put under the article:

      WhatsApp for Nokia Lumia smartphones updated to v2.8.10, Now available for WP8 devices - SymbianTweet

      I don't know if it's easier to put bouth articles here.

      Thank you very much!

      Appie
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        General news articles rewritten probably don't need a resource link.
        Why would it? If this were the case, twitter, FB, would be crazy
        off the chart with resource links. Sometimes I do, most times I
        don't. General news stories with details that are now common
        knowledge would not need a link. Things like you are giving
        an example of are just in press releases sent out to millions,
        or nothing earth shattering. If some article gives updates on
        a phone, new features, etc., this is just common knowledge
        that anyone reading press releases, handling, asking a sales
        person, etc. could find out.

        Like I said above. How many news stories do you see floating
        around FB? No resource cited, not needed.

        You can't copyright facts in most cases. I'm trying to think
        of an instance where you can, and I can't think of one.
        If anyone can, post it.

        How is a basketball score and stats copyrighted? They're not.
        You write an article, with this in it, that is copyrighted. But the
        stats are not. If they were, nobody would ever be able to
        broadcast or print any scores or stats. So, how are
        cellphone features copyrighted?

        Paul
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    • Profile picture of the author falcott
      Curation may be acceptable at times. Huffington Post does this all the time. Just link back to the original article.
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  • Profile picture of the author stopper
    You can rewrite the articles and as long as they are original you are set to go
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    • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
      Originally Posted by stopper View Post

      You can rewrite the articles and as long as they are original you are set to go
      Rewrite and original make an oxymoron. I believe the word you are looking for is unique. And that's only so far as the search engines or Copyscape think of the term.
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  • Profile picture of the author RyanEagle
    If you rewrite news articles, you don't need to link back to them. There isn't some special rule just because they're news articles. Rewriting is rewriting.
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