Fair Use Rights for Bloggers – How to Use Online Content

Are you a blogger who often quotes someone else’ idea or articles? Are you blogging within your Fair Use rights? This video was posted on webpronews.com and I thought this is worth sharing to everyone.

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“Bloggers have a perfect right to quote in context, and to say ‘the Washington Post said this’ and ‘here’s how the Times covered it’, and here’s a link to the whole article if you want to look at that,” says Aufderheide. “And they have a perfect right as well to quote pictures, images, and to link to video on a commercial site that is producing that stuff, once again within context. What is it that they’re doing that is different from the original site? And then I think bloggers are doing just fine, and they’re employing their fair use rights just like scholars do every day when they quote several previous scholars and write in their articles that these previous scholars didn’t know what they were talking about when they said x, y, and z, and I’m right.”