If I copy text from a news website for my news website is that illegal?
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It's called copyrights you can't get credit for someone Else's hard work. that is why u always do what these other two people say print the source where u got that information. And people have gotten in trouble before for not doing this. It's a law.
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If you're working with Excel, consider Visual Basic, which is the language Excel's macros are done in.  But you'll have to know it awfully awfully well.  Same if you used C++.\n\nAnd what makes you think copying that information from a site isn't illegal?
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The system isn't illegal, no.\n\nHowever, if you distribute/or download copyright-protected media, that is illegal. That's basically abusing the principle of Peer-2-Peer and other File Sharing programs.
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plagiarism is illegal.  don't do it.
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it is illegal...report it to the proper authority.
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If it is a news article you quote it as if from a newspaper and use the name bbc.co.uk
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Look at the legal documents that come with the program.  Unless it's shareware or freeware then it's illegal.  You don't even "own" the program, you only own a license to use the program.  \n\nOf course it's illegal to sell those copies.
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what do you mean by "a site that you cannot access"?\n\nwell - plagiarism itself is not, in fact, a crime.  certainly it is taboo in the academic world, but nobody's ever gone to jail for plagiarism. \n\nhowever, if someone in academia is copying your work and passing it off as their own, the best thing to do is to contact the dean of their school or department and let them know.  it is taken very seriously in higher education and the offender will almost certainly be seriously punished.\n\nif, on the other hand, it is not in an academic context, you may be talking about copyright infringement.  if someone is reprinting, publishing or distributing your work without your explicit permission, that IS illegal.  \n\ntalk to a lawyer, who will take the first step of sending the website's owner a "cease and desist" letter, demanding that they remove the offending content.  if the website's owner does not remove the content, you can sue them for copyright infringement, and if the court finds in your favor it will issue an injunction against the site's owner, which is a legal order to remove the content.  if they still refuse, they can be imprisoned for contempt of court.\n\nof course, hiring a lawyer and suing someone is really quite expensive - even a relatively cheap lawyer bills at several hundred dollars per hour, and on top of that are court fees etc - and following through on such a thing would likely end up costing you several thousand dollars.  so you may decide in the end that it's not worth it to go down this route.\n\none thing you could try is the "nice guy" approach and mail the owner of the website (you can find out who this is by doing a "whois" search for the domain name - search the web for whois services) and send them a letter explaining, nicely, that they are reproducing your work without permission and you would like them to take it down.  it's cheap and easy and may very well work.\n\ngood luck!
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All works on wikipedia are distributed under GNU Free Documentation License.[1]\nThis means that it is OK to copy ANYTHING from wikipedia if it the derived work will be distributed under similarly free license.\nThis is known as "copy left"\nSince Yahoo is not claiming copyright to any of the answers [2] it is not a violation of any laws, if the answerer agrees to license his answer under GFDL as well.\nSo Wikipedia is fine, however copying from other websites might be a copyright infringement.
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not sure of any exact laws but as long as you are not lying about something or plagiarizing you should be fine, also if you are posting adult stuff i think you have to have a pass word thing set up to make sure kids are not getting on to it
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It depends on the state, but it is usually a misdemeanor.  I've included a couple of definition links below.\n\nEDIT: I see the previous poster has taken a fancy to copying my links....
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Yes, it's illegal, as a copyright violation. You cannot (legally) electronically duplicate anything that you do not own the copyright to.
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Well then write one, plagiarism is incredibly illegal!!
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It won't let me copy it so go to the site below and it will take you to it\n\nhttp://aspidiske.blogspot.com/
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how is it illegal if ur doin it to urself?\nhmmm
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Because of copywrite laws
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To my knowledge it is not illegal but could be construed as a conflict of interest or witness coercion or tampering. If you have proof or reasonable suspicion,tell the lawyers involved. Peace.