Can I Copy Another Blogger’s Text?
Copying the entire post of another blogger and putting it in your blog is copyright infringement, even though bloggers rarely enforce their rights. Copying parts of another’s writing and passing it off as your own (such as editing it a bit) is also copyright infringement.
However, you normally can quote a portion of another’s writing in order to discuss it yourself. The quoted portion should be a small percentage of the entire written work.
Copyright infringement includes statutory damages, which means that even though you didn’t harm the person whose text you copied, if found to have infringed, you will be liable for damages anyway. Damages levels will be between $750 and $30,000 per infringement, at the discretion of the court.
Statutory damages provided in the U.S. Code under Title 17, Section 504.
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Published by: admin on November 8th, 2007 | Filed under Copyright Law, Internet Law
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