Advice on legalities of quoting news items in a website

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Hi guys

Happy new year! hope you all had a good xmas.

I was wondering what the legal implications are to quoting news items on your website, for example:

1. Copy / paste the entire article and headline with the original source named and linked at the end of the article. (probably not good)

2. Write a few words yourself on the news item and then link it up "read more" without directly quoting the original article. (is this ok?)

Embedding news article images:

1. Embed same pic but with caption (i.e Credit: AP images .... etc)

2. Cannot use news item images - I believe you require a license to do this (for example Associated Press)

I'm just wondering how you guys do this (those that do) - i.e what is acceptable and what is not, I highly doubt point 1 on both above is; I just wanted to get some opinions.

Thanks
 
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