Legal Question in Intellectual Property in India
Dear lawyers,
I am from India.
I am in the process of designing my own website which will have Discussion forums,blogs,and NEWS SECTION.
The NEWS section is just a small section of my site,amongst the various other sections.This means that my site is NOT A NEWS WEBSITE.
In the NEWS section,the registered members of my site will post latest news related to medical field.Earlier I thought that they can copy-paste and submit the news,after mentioning its source from where it is taken,so that copyright related issues don't emerge.However I was told it is illegal.
So following are my questions:
1. If I ask my website members to write the news in their own words, after reading it in a news website,will that be legal?
2. If that is legal, does the law still demand that they mention the source of this news,where they read it,once the members submit the news in their own words?
3. If the above 2 options are not legally safe,please suggest me such ways through which members can submit news daily without my website getting into any legal problem.
Regards,
Manoj
1 Answer from Attorneys
Your members can quote excerpts of news.
There are also copyright free news services available.
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