copyright infringement

What is copyright infringement?

“Copyright infringement is the unauthorized use of copyrighted material in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner’s exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works that build upon it.”

• You’re welcome to quote a few lines and link to the full post, but you are not welcome to copy the full post without permission.
• Giving credit to your source does not take the place of requesting permission to use material on your blog. Without requesting permission you are infringing on that authors copyright.

• With regards to posting articles from national news outlets on your blog in their full entirety.

  Posting the first paragraph, first few sentences, or a quote from the article is fine, but posting the full article without permission from the source is a copyright violation.

• from rose desrocher