AP to sue websites that use its members' articles without permission

[Derwin0]

Looks like we'll have to be more careful about articles being posted here.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090406/media_nm/us_ap

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Associated Press unveiled rate cuts on Monday to help member newspapers reeling from declining advertising revenue and said it would sue websites that use its members' articles without permission.
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[Madtown HD Junkie]

Good article Derwin0. ty
I would hope links are still ok or small snippets.
We are not doing news in that section anymore as I said this morning in a thread.
What does this mean to you?

[Derwin0]

Good article Derwin0. ty
I would hope links are still ok or small snippets.
We are not doing news in that section anymore as I said this morning in a thread.
What does this mean to you?
This being a political website, it's prone to having members post news articles.

Therefore it means we should police to make sure no complete articles are posted. The mods should remove them, leaving only a link to the original.
By showing "due diligence" the site should be safe.

I would imagine a link to the article, with a small snippet (say no more than 3 lines) should be fine.

[msmith198025]

Yeah, I agree with Derwin. I cant imagine that they would go after links. So it should be limited to that to be safe