Posting newsclippings online as PDFs

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From: Franklin Seal <[email protected]>
Date: November 29, 2006 2:19:17 PM EST
To: David Farber <[email protected]>
Subject: Posting newsclippings online as PDFs

Dave — for IP if you like:

I regularly save online news articles as PDF files, then post them on  
a website as newsclippings. This avoids the problem of articles  
disappearing on the original newspaper’s site down the line. But  
someone asked me the other day if this was legal and I didn’t have an  
answer. So far, I’ve come up blank looking for one online.

Anyone able to point me to statute or case history that might shed  
some light here?

Franklin Seal
Moab, Utah