Posting articles from a pay wall newspaper?

[magimedi]

Is this allowed or will it cause copyright trouble for MN?

I subscribe to The Times & wanted to copy & post an article from there on a thread I was on.

I haven't done so & have PM'd it to a couple of people, but I wondered if I could have don this?

[NymodigFruOla]

I might be wrong, but if you post a link from a paywall newspaper and the person that clicks on the link doesn't subscribe, then you don't get anything anyway - apart from the home page?

[magimedi]

Not posting the link, but copying and pasting the relevant article & posting it on a thread.

[NymodigFruOla]

Ah, sorry, I see

[IamtheZombie]

It's not allowed, magi. There was a thread fairly recently where someone did that and HQ had to remove the post.

[RowanMumsnet]

Hello

We tend to delete these when they're reported to us, because posting up an entire article from a paywalled paper/publication isn't really 'fair use' in copyright terms. It's OK to quote a few lines, but if we receive a complaint about C+Ping the entire article we do take the post down.