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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
You can't say that name!! You'll get SSP in trouble!!! 
By convention we refer to it as "the website that shall not be named"........ |
The "convention" is silly and it's time to scrap it.
If AllNovaScotia can build its business and pay underemployed journalists by peddling overpriced subscriptions under a brand of exclusivity, I say more power to them. The SSP is under no obligation to help them.
Canadian copyright law is quite clear and does not protect ANS any more or less than it protects the Chronicle Herald, the Globe and Mail or the Digby Courier for that matter.
One of the clearest expressions of the law I know comes from Innovation, Science and Development Canada:
It is the expression of facts that is protected by copyright, not the facts themselves. For example, the facts in a magazine article are in the public domain. Anyone can use those facts as long as they do not copy the way the author of the article has expressed them. As long as you use your own words, you will not infringe copyright.
In short, you can mention, cite, even quote with attribution small portions of an article from any published source without running afoul of Canadian copyright law.