Legal Question in Intellectual Property in California

I am starting a blog featuring articles that I found appealing to me online. I want to paste these articles in quote and have a source and link of where I found these articles put into my post. For example, I would post the article in my blog, and have the Source: and Link: embedded in my post. The intention of my blog is I want to have a collection or scrapbook of articles that I found interesting that I can share with my readers or people who happen to come across my blog. Since I will be quoting the articles and giving them proper source with a link, I know this is not plagarism. Is it copyright infringement, even though I give the proper credit and source to everything I post? How can I make it so that my blog is operating within legal bounds?


Asked on 10/09/10, 7:15 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Rob Reed Law Office of Robert A. Reed

Short answer: yes, it is copyright infringement. You are better off posting your own summary of what the article contains (without taking too much by way of quotes) and provide a link.

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Answered on 10/19/10, 5:08 pm


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