This is such an appropriate blog for these days. It’s so easy to copy and paste anything anywhere.
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Re-blogging or Copyright Infringement
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Savvybookwriters.wordpress.com has had more than 275,000 readers as of last week and I am very grateful for over 1,100 subscribers and comments. The blog articles, tips and links I work on, often for hours or even days, such as this old one, but still THE most popular, got even copied and pasted into other peoples blogs – even so there is a RE-BLOGGING function on all WordPress sites. It is easy to use: just click on it, write your own comment and have your subscribers get curated content – you save time and you don’t run into possible copyright problems.
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Re-blogging is considered legitimate sharing when the original source is obvious and available, linking to the original source, comparable to sharing on Facebook, where it includes the link and where only a small portion is shown. Readers can then follow the link…
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I try not to make it a habit of re-blogging but it is nice to be able to share something without worrying about infringing.
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Agreed. This came up for me just the other day. I found an article online I wanted to use. I gave it plenty of acknowledgements and the author of the article thanked me for blogging it. You can see it (about Mark) on http://www.eastmontrosecool.com
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