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Can I put news items from other people’s websites on my website if I attribute the source?
You will need permission from relevant copyright owners to put news items from other people’s websites onto your own website. Merely attributing the other site won’t substitute for permission.
In some cases, you will need to get permission on a case-by-case basis (for example, by contacting the relevant website proprietor).
In other cases, the person who operates the website may have given a general permission that is wide enough to cover the use you want to make of the material on their site (for example, by means of a broad permission statement on their website or by using a “Creative Commons” licence with the news items).
In yet other cases, websites that publish news allow people to set up RSS feeds from their site to other sites; in these cases, check for any terms or conditions that apply before setting up the RSS feed to your site.