TheNextWeb could have provided substantially the same article to its readers by block quoting with attribution rather than plagiarizing with attribution. Would

TheNextWeb could have provided substantially the same article to its readers by block quoting with attribution rather than plagiarizing with attribution. Would that have been fair use? While a significant minority of people would say "No", I'm in the majority that would say "Yes". But hey -- I once blogged something only to have Mashable post the same news, taking credit for it as original research (but without plagiarizing the wording). I think that behavior was worse. Pete Cashmore promised me he'd fix it, then didn't follow through.