Legality of Web Content Integration

[rb1754]

Evening,

Right now I work for a music company that puts out a quarterly publication. We're revamping our website and our original idea was to have a few writers create daily blog postings on our homepage for visitors to read up on current events and other interest pieces. Unfortunately, as a small and relatively new company we're struggling to maintain consistency in volume and quality of the work we're trying to put out weekly on our website.

Thus, someone had an idea we'd like to explore but it sounded as if there may be some hoops to jump through legally. Someone had mentioned taking articles from other publications and embedding them onto our website so that on any particular day relevant articles from the New York Times, USA Today, or whomever would appear and visitors to our website could read what they like without having to scour the internet for such material.

At first, this sounds a bit iffy, but I feel like I've seen other websites do this? If you go to Google News it certainly has this type of feature, but of course, Google News doesn't necessarily have banner ads or obvious streams of income associated with their website.

I'm hoping someone might provide insight to whether or not this idea is viable.


Thanks

 

[LdiJ]

Evening,

Right now I work for a music company that puts out a quarterly publication. We're revamping our website and our original idea was to have a few writers create daily blog postings on our homepage for visitors to read up on current events and other interest pieces. Unfortunately, as a small and relatively new company we're struggling to maintain consistency in volume and quality of the work we're trying to put out weekly on our website.

Thus, someone had an idea we'd like to explore but it sounded as if there may be some hoops to jump through legally. Someone had mentioned taking articles from other publications and embedding them onto our website so that on any particular day relevant articles from the New York Times, USA Today, or whomever would appear and visitors to our website could read what they like without having to scour the internet for such material.

At first, this sounds a bit iffy, but I feel like I've seen other websites do this? If you go to Google News it certainly has this type of feature, but of course, Google News doesn't necessarily have banner ads or obvious streams of income associated with their website.

I'm hoping someone might provide insight to whether or not this idea is viable.


Thanks

Lots of websites have links to other relevant issues or current events. Links wouldn't give you a problem...actually imbedding articles likely would.

 

[rb1754]

And what if we operated just like Google News did - where we had articles available on our website and once opened it brought you to the original website (i.e. new york times, usa today, huff post, etc...).

Thanks

 

[quincy]

And what if we operated just like Google News did - where we had articles available on our website and once opened it brought you to the original website (i.e. new york times, usa today, huff post, etc...).

Thanks

What you are proposing would infringe on the copyright holders' rights.

You can provide links on your site to the other sites (but often only a link to the home page). This is generally legal (there are a few exceptions).

I suggest you build your small business and website like most businesses have to - through hard work, fresh content and good advertising.

And I recommend you have a publishing law professional review your content so you avoid the mistakes many new businesses make when publishing online. Here is a good link to check out: http://www.kcnn.org You can find on the banner the word "Modules." Click on it and scroll to find the "Legal Risks" module. The entire site is excellent and the legal risks module provides a good look at the laws that govern online sites and how to avoid a lawsuit.

Good luck.