Legal Question in Intellectual Property in California
Copyrights
I am starting a website that will contain summarizations of news stories so that people can see what is happening in the news. Am I allowed to do this or will I be infringing on copyrights of these news stories?
2 Answers from Attorneys
Re: Copyrights
Look up the case, INS v. AP (google fot it)
Re: Copyrights
If you use the "cut and paste" method or something similar to create your "summarizations," you are probably very quickly and very often going to exceed what's allowed under the "fair use" doctrine, especially if you are running this website for profit (by including ads, for example).
You would be relatively safe if you wrote everything afresh in your own words.
The law of copyrights doesn't protect news facts, it protects the reporter's and/or editors' expression thereof.
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