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It depends what kind of material and how much. There are laws protecting the fair use of copyrighted material, but lifting an entire website wholesale is plagiarism and copyright infringement.
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∙ 12y ago
Wiki User
∙ 13y agoProbably not. If the information is protected by copyright, you're subject to the same laws that you would be if the information were in a book. However, the vast majority of information on the internet is not protected by copyright.
If you sought to use the information for academic purposes, it would be plagiarism, and while not necessarily illegal, this could get you into quite a bit of trouble.
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Is copy and paste legal?
Well, it depends on how you are using it. No, it is not ethical/legal to take words or ideas from one site and paste them onto another site without giving the original writer credit or getting permission to do so. It's part of the whole copyright dilemma, and people who publish online have an automatic copyright, if publishing on their own site under their own name, and if they publish on someone else's site, often that site owns the copyright to that work (depends on terms of use). Is it legal to copy and paste your own words, or edit your own work, or use the copy and paste feature to edit the words of others as part of your job or with the permission of the author? Sure.
How do I write to someone with Esq in title?
just copy then paste and then write LD
Why is copy writing illegal?
because it was stupid noob
Why is it illegal plagiarism?
Plagiarism is illegal because you are copying another person's words and using them as if they were your own. Therefore, you can copy and paste a quote or words to a document, and so forth, as long as you put quotation marks at the beginning and end of the quote or piece of writing, or you can put the source you got it from, and sometimes, if you want to, you can put who wrote the piece of writing you have supplied.
Is it illegal to paint from a photo?
No - simply because the painting will never be an exact copy of the photograph.
Is it illegal to copy and paste website material for your personal reading?
Although this is not addressed in the law, it would be unusual for the rightsholder to take action, as it doesn't interrupt their revenue stream.
When and why is it illegal to copy and paste?
It is illegal when you copy and paste without the owner's permission. It is illegal because you are taking it and saying it is yours.
Why are you not always allowed to copy and paste?
It may be illegal
If you paste an answer from a website for WikiAnswers what happens?
If a Supervisor finds out that you copy and pasted an answer from another website, the Supervisor will remove your answer and you will be warned that plagiarism is against WikiAnswers' rules, and is also illegal.
How to include pictures with help answer?
i would guess just copy and paste. or copy and paste the website the picture is on.
How do you cite this website on a bibliography?
you copy and paste
Is it illegal to copy and paste from here?
No, This is a site for the Public but you should not copy the same words exactly.
Is it illegal to copy and paste music and movies?
Yes. It is illegal to copy and paste music and movies. You need expressed permission from the labels to do that. That's what copyright protection is (and DRM).
Is is illegal to copy and paste material from a website with a copyright if you give the web address of the source?
Yes. It is an infringement of the website owner's copyright. Whether or not you give credit is immaterial and whether or not you charge for it is equally irrelevant. You would be using copyrighted material without permission and that is essentially the definition of infringement.It is not illegal if you are passing it off as your own or if you are charging a fee for its viewing.If you are simply quoting then providing you cite where you got the info from it is fine.Copying a photograph may be illegal however.yes
How do you put link in any website?
Copy and paste the URL
How do you create a website like google images website?
download the source and copy paste it
Is mediafire illegal?
Downloading copy right material is illegal. Mediafire itself isn't really illegal.
