Comments on: What Are the Rules For Sharing or Passing On Someone Else’s Blog Post or Article?

By: Marketing Darcy

Marketing Darcy — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:03:51 +0000

what about news paper or magazine content? can someone post there info on there blog without getting in trouble from the magazines?

By: brentriggs

brentriggs — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:36:45 +0000

Proper etiquette is to credit the source no matter whether an excerpt or a full piece. Typically a full article will come with an author written attribution they want included. For excerpts, a link to the full article is acceptable.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:52:57 +0000

I know it’s more original to perhaps include an excerpt of someone else’s blog, and then add value by commenting on it, but I’d like to understand the etiquette if I would like to simply use someone else’s entire post. In this scenario I am not passing it off as my own, but simply serving as a sort of syndicator.

In this case I’m thinking in the way the eZine articles are used, where the guidelines are that the post is used 100% as-is and at the bottom attribution is given to the writer.

For blog posts, I’ve seen people simply copy the other person’s post, then at the bottom say simply something like “via – [name of post included]” with the right link. Is this enough, or is more appropriate to do more in terms of a citation?

By: dymphna

dymphna — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:02:25 +0000

I have been wanting to know the answer to this!!! I did not want to offend someone due to lack of knowledge.

Thanks

By: brentriggs

brentriggs — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:53:41 +0000

If their blogs are completely public, I would say no. In those cases, if they have a problem with it, they can let you know, and you can say “sorry” and immediately remove the link. But when things are put up to the open public, linking to them is almost always welcome, and there is NOTHING legally wrong with it, period (even if they tell you “no”, you can still link legally, it’s just not good manners).

By: gardenia

gardenia — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:37:10 +0000

Brent, thanks for this post. a question similar to this one. I read several blogs of adoptive moms who are still waiting to bring their children home from Guat. I have thought about doing a post asking my readers pray for these families, and identifying those blogs and linking them in my post. That way, people might also check out those blogs and give those families support too. I do not know these waiting families, other than my reading of their blogs and commenting in their comments. Do you thingk I need to get their permissions to identify their blogs and link to them in my post? They are all public — not password protected.