How should Newspaper monetize their online content? Is it fair to use their content on Twitter or Facebook?

[abhinav d]

These days different people and web portals just pick the news clipping and put on different websites like Facebook and twitter without the permission of actual content owner and in some cases earn money from someone else's content. Actual content owners (in this case news papers spend so much money to get the actualy content and their content is used by someone else without any extra benefit to them.

[OkieRoadhunter]

That would be considered copyright infringement, and it's illegal. That's why most people post links that go right to the site where they got the story.

[The knowledge]

Well this is just theft.

I work for a regional newspaper in the UK and it isn't cheap reporting local news, it's very labour intensive. Even relatively short stories have to be researched, people interviewed, facts checked etc.

It is difficult for newspapers to monetise their content as many internet users have got used to not paying for content.