Let’s say my company has a web site that links to various news articles. However, many of these links will become dead as newspapers archive their articles. So, can we save a copy of the article and link to that? Is that legal?
I know that a lot of bloggers link to news articles, how do they handle this?
Thanks in advance.
If you save a copy, technically you’re violating copyright. What the newspaper does about it is hard to say, but they do have the right to make you remove it and even make you pay for the copying.
Linking, by practice, is not considered a copyright issue since nothing is copied.
To stay in the clear, contact the newspaper for permission to use the article.