Is it ok to post whole articles here..

[Le Roi de Pot]

I can access WSJ through proquest at the school I adjunct in..

I am tempted to post articles from there .. But is that ok?

[PJMcK]

1. Only with the written permission of the copyright holder

Otherwise, you're supposed to excerpt up to 4 paragraphs.

I think that's the principal, anyway.

[hlthe2b]

2. Copyright law requires you to excerpt---usually 4-5 paragraphs is ok

It is most useful to snip important sections to convey the most important 4-5 total paragraphs (Given current typesetting typically will offset quotes into its own paragraph, one can get away with just a bit more if you snip these sections)

[JHB]

3. Four paragraphs is considered ok for fair use standards

I would suggest picking the most appropriate four, since often people just post the first four but sometimes those are preliminaries and don't get into the substance of the article.

[DetlefK]

4. Copyright law says you can't copy so much that reading the original article becomes irrelevant.

Copyright-law is pretty murky. But that's basically one of the standards judges go by in copyright-cases.

[Le Roi de Pot]

5. Thanks everyone.. This really helps

[PoliticAverse]

6. No. You can't post entire copyrighted articles only a maximum of 4-paragraph excerpts...

[CottonBear]

7. Here's an example of a 4 paragraph excerpt from The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/17/misinformation-us-elections-2020-russia

‘Steady drumbeat of misinformation’: FBI chief warns of Russian interference in US elections

Chris Wray says bureau has seen ‘very active efforts by Russians’
Efforts are primarily meant to denigrate Joe Biden
Joan E Greve in Washington and agency
@joanegreve
Thu 17 Sep 2020 14.54 EDT

Christopher Wray, the FBI director, on Thursday warned that Russia is interfering in the 2020 US presidential elections with a steady stream of misinformation aimed at undermining Democrat Joe Biden as well as sapping Americans’ confidence in the election process.

Moscow is also attempting to undercut what it sees as an anti-Russian US establishment, Wray told the Democratic-led House of Representatives’ homeland security committee in a hearing on Capitol Hill.

<snip>

Wray’s testimony follows a 7 August warning by the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center that Russia, China and Iran were all trying to interfere in the 3 November election.

Multiple reviews by US intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia acted to boost Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and damage his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. The Republican president has long bristled at that finding, which Russia officially denies despite special counsel Robert Mueller indicting Russian operatives for meddling in order to help Trump.

more...

Use the /excerpt tool at the beginning and end of your post in order to make it show up in the gray area as shown above.

Post the url link. Post the full article title, sub-title, author and date. Post up to 4 paragraphs, choosing the most important ones to convey the information you wish to share with DU. Use <snip> to indicate skipped paragraphs and use more... to indicate that there is more to the article, unless you post the last paragraph.

You would post the exact title in the reply title or the original post title.

Edit: It is a DU courtesy to post a 4 paragraph excerpt instead of just posting a link to an article or news story. I really dislike link only posts. I don’t want to click through, especially to unfamiliar sites or sites like The Daily Mail, which I endeavor to avoid.

You can also post pictures from the story. Note that not all image links will display properly on DU. I wasn’t able to post the picture from the article above. It only shows as a url:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/17/misinformation-us-elections-2020-russia#img-1