the personal-use provision prohibits reposting stories (as has been done here) online. In the future, if you want to excerpt a piece, or provide a summary (no LLMs, for the love of god), that’s fine, but whole articles are not something we do here for legal reasons. It’s irrelevant to the liability of Beehaw what your take on copyright is.
As for CW’s, if you want to be that verbose, mark the post NSFW and then list them at the top of the body.
Are these sitewide policies, or are they only applicable to the U.S. News comm?
Fair use law is typically up to the judge. The four categories provide you a defense for fair use, but there’s no “hard line”. Unfortunately, “use common sense” is about as good as it gets, at least regarding the law.
I agree some kind of guideline would be helpful though. Not a hard line at all, but something to get a sense of where it becomes too much.
Edit: should clarify that I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve seen and read a fair bit of content regarding fair use in the past. It’s actually worth the time to research (if you’re in the US anyway) because you can see just how awful the cases would be if many of the copyright claims we see today were actually taken to court rather than just being big person bullying small person.
It should probably be obvious from the reply, but yeah, I should say, just to be absolutely clear, I am also not a lawyer.