E-Commerce News has an interesting article that explores the boundaries faced when bloggers cut-and-paste from other blogs or news sites. It clarifies "fair use" a bit, and warns against hotlinking images, which zaps bandwidth from the image host and is regarded as unethical.
Speaking of ethics, there have been efforts to create a blogger "code of ethics," such as this one by cyberjournalist.net. I’m not sure if there is a more widely-accepted or definitive code that exists, but the code at cyberjournalist.net offers solid guidelines that bloggers would do well to abide by.
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