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Is it legit for websites to steal other website's stories?

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  • #32
    Mother Brain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 255 ✭✭Mother Brain


    Cool Mo D wrote: »
    That is absolute bull. Everything anyone writes is automatically copyrighted, no need to register or provide notice, or do anything at all. Fair use is a very, very limited right (there's no such thing as "fair use" in Ireland, there's a similar thing called "fair dealing") , and it never ever covers simply copying an article in full on a for-profit website. The posts you write on Boards.ie are under copyright - although note that in the terms of use you agree to it says:



    Everything you read online is under copyright, including news articles. However, facts cannot be copyrighted. So it is perfectly legal to use information published somewhere else to write a new article saying basically the same thing. As long as the new work is sufficiently different from the old one, no payment is necessary.

    Fair point. :)


  • #33
    TiGeR KiNgS
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭TiGeR KiNgS


    Kermit.de.frog wrote: »
    The Journal has to be the worst for this. There are 3 or 4 articles today alone that are basically lifted from the Irish Times and printed differently.

    As far as I know these sites don't do the journalistic work that major newspapers and broadcasters do and don't have that expense.

    They are basically taking stories from other media who do work for the stories and republishing them in a different format.

    I can't believe this is legit because it is so blatant. The Journal, for example, may be a reasonably popular site but the way things are going I can see real journalism disappearing eventually because it won't be worth it.

    Ok, but the Irish Times do this as well. That's why they don't kick up a fuss about it.

    I'd rather the Journal lift stories off other sites than the pure ****e their own 'journalists' put out there. The spelling, grammer, unsourced material, made up statistics, polls upon polls is tragic.

    PS
    The totally not made up in 10 mins 'Top 9 Things .... ' is a journalistic abomination.


  • #34
    speedboatchase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,891 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    DareGod wrote: »
    The Journal often gathers and re-tweets completely random tweets and presents them as an article - using said tweets as "evidence" of a "widely-held" opinion.

    It is absolute trash, filled with grammar and spelling mistakes, and atrocious writing.

    It's a disgrace to journalism.

    It is trash, but people aren't vocal about demanding higher standards, and in today's era of ad-blocking software and declining newspaper purchases/digital subscriptions, they aren't putting their money where their mouth is. The likes of JOE.ie and The Journal serve to curate other people's work, usually in a lowest common denominator style that emphasises sensationalism and viral appeal over all else. Unfortunately, it's remarkably effective and even the likes of TIME's Facebook and Twitter accounts have started to focus on list-based articles and celeb nonsense.

    People's standards and expectations for journalism have - consciously or not - been lowered. I'd wager that most people I know get the bulk of their news from Facebook rather than dedicated websites/newspapers. Worst of all, I see that this trend moving in only one direction.


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