Is it illegal to repost newspaper/magazine content? repost, newspaper, magazine, content, illegal

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I just saw the following news on mingpao. This time I am not going to qoute the content of this article.
So reposting part of a news article is illegal? Even when we qoute the source of it?
http://www.mingpaonews.com/20090307/gga1.htm

布小熊

but the end of the article said that straightly speaking, reposting any content of newspaper or magazine vailated the copyright.
But the chance of being sue by the copyright owner (publisher) is lower if the repost articles are for private and non profit uses.

still.....

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原帖由 rainbow-davie 於 2009-3-6 02:21 PM 發表
put a reference on top.. saying where the source from.  provided with a link. you will be fine.

I usually do that.