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Since I’m not an attorney of any sort, this isn’t legal advice, and shouldn’t be treated as such.) Scraping. Repost, republish, reprint. Theft. No matter what you call it, there’s is little more infuriating to a writer than to discover that your work has been published without your consent. Scraping, or the republishing of all or part of an author’s work without consent, has been a recurring problem in the blogosphere that has left lots of us at our wits’ ends. First thing’s first: you have to understand the underlying basics of copyright law. Copyright is automatic and free of charge. TL;DR — Copyright law protects your original creative works…automatically and for free. After that, recognize that attribution and permission are not the same thing. 1. 2.
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