Copying items from major website - bad?
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Hello,
I working on a new project that collect news items from websites like Bloomberg and CNN, I'm take the title and the full content of specific articles and publish them under my domain. At the same time my writers publish unique articles on the site.
Sure, I'm adding "Source" for each duplicate article with the link to the source.
1. It's risky?
2. Duplicate content?
3. Should I use Noindex/Nofollow for each duplicate article?Please share your thoughts.
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Hey, Thanks for your answer but I didn't ask about legal or copyright.
I have the confirmation to use this content - don't worry. I just ask how to do it without penalty. -
Nailed it. Moz needs to vote this top answer
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Agree with EGOL. Even if you are giving "credit" by linking to the website. Even if you put the legal points aside, you are just filling up the internet with copies that add no value to the internet.
Focus on the unique content you are creating.
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**1. It's risky? **
Yes. If you do it with content owned by individuals or companies who defend their intellectual property, they will submit DMCA notices to your hosting company (who will remove the infringing content from their servers), to search engines (who will deindex your pages), to ad networks such as Adsense (who will turn off the ads on that page if you are a one-time infringer, or ban your account if you do it frequently).
I defend my content and every week I send multiple DMCA notices to Google, make multiple complaints to Adsense, and send complaints to other hosting or content providers. These get results. Pages are removed, ads are turned off, websites are shut down.
If you go to this page you will see that google receives over a million of these complaints each day. You can even look up who is making the complaints and who is being complained about.
If the above does not work, legal notices are sent by registered mail to people who are making unauthorized use of my content.
The work that I do to defend my content is mostly manual, but I have done enough of it that I can prepare and submit several notices in just a few minutes. Google provides an easy-to-use template. Large companies have computer programs that search the web for infringement, identify infringing websites/pages, and file complaints automatically. Some have embedded "phone home" code within their content that immediately flags infringers and prepares complaints the first time a page is viewed on the web.
If I don't do as described above other people using my content will damage my income. So, I periodically spend good money on legal assistance and regularly spend time swatting infringers. The effort is worth it to prevent lost income and educate people who break copyright law. Most people who do this don't realize that they are breaking the law.
2. Duplicate content?
Yes.
3. Should I use Noindex/Nofollow for each duplicate article?
No. You should not use content that belongs to other people without their permission or without an explicit license to republish. Taking copyrighted content is against federal copyright law. The things mentioned above could be done against you and if you are defiant when notice is provided you could end up in federal court with criminal or civil complaints.
If you republish content from Bloomberg and CNN at scale there is a good chance that your domain will be banned from google. You could face legal problems if they swat at you a few times and don't stop taking their content.
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