Dividends OK

Michaelirish

I think you should bring yourself up-to-date with copyright laws!

Copyright in the Web: An Overview

1. Copyright applies to the Web.
2. Your work is protected under copyright as soon as it’s created and protected for your lifetime, plus 70 years.
3. Copyright expires. When copyright expires, the work becomes public domain.
4. Ideas can’t be copyrighted, only the result tangible expression of the idea can. (updated)
5. You may use logos and trademarks in your works.
6. You may use copyrighted material under the “fair use” doctrine.
7. You may quote only limited portions of work. You may publish excerpts, not whole articles.
8. You have to ask author’s permission to translate his/her article.
9. The removal of the copyrighted material doesn’t remove the copyright infringement.
10. If something looks copyrighted, you should assume it is. (updated)
11. Advertising protected material without an agreement is illegal.
12. You may not always delete or modify your visitors’ comments.
13. User generated content is the property of the users.
14. Copyright is violated by using information, not by charging for it.
15. Getting explicit permission can save you a lot of trouble.

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/07/copyright-explained-i-may-copy-it-right/

Michaelirish

All these sites pay their journalists five figure sums for writing quality articles and in return get their revenue from advertisers. By taking their article and republishing it on HotCopper you are denying them revenue.(Obviously HotCopper are  not concerned about copyright infringements?)

For you information  ABC Terms of Use are:
(But these are just typical of most sites)

4. Use Of ABC Content

All intellectual property rights in the content, software and systems owned by or licensed to the ABC on any ABC Online Services, including logos, images, names, designs, trademarks and copyright (ABC Content) are reserved to the ABC and its licensors.
Such content is provided for your personal, non-commercial use only. Unless specifically noted in the House Rules for a particular service, you may not otherwise reproduce, republish, modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, reverse engineer or disassemble ABC Content, without obtaining the ABC's prior written permission.

http://www.abc.net.au/conditions.htm