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"We're not suppose to post articles from The Independent. Copyright complaint."

An article posted in it's entirety is a no-no without the agreement of the copyright holder, but small excerpts are okay.

One interesting bit of confusion exists on websites where they give you the option for a "printer fiendly version". This implies that its okay to "print", but in a digital medium, "print" can also mean "print to file".

The New Zealand Herald, for example, routinely offers a "printer friendly version" of it's headline stories. But on those pages you will see "You may not reproduce, publish, electronically archive or transmit this article in any manner without the prior written consent of the New Zealand Herald." They offer you a version to "print" while at the same time, they tell you that you can't print it. I'd say the latter would lose over the former in a court case since the option to "print" was after all, being offered first.

In another vein, most everyone that surfs for news must be a copyright law breaker since what is viewed is often cached. As for me, no one is touching my gigabytes of archived online news. Thank you, Adobe Acrobat.