Fair Use & Attribution
Last updated: May 7, 2026
Apprised.news synthesizes news intelligence from 800+ public RSS and Atom feeds via Corvus Intel. Briefs quote, summarize, and analyze third-party reporting under U.S. fair-use doctrine, nominative-trademark use, and the public-interest journalism exception. This page explains how.
U.S. fair use (17 U.S.C. § 107)
Briefs include short headlines, source attributions, and tightly bounded excerpts of factual reporting for the purposes of commentary, criticism, news reporting, scholarship, and research. We weigh the four statutory factors codified at 17 U.S.C. § 107:
- Purpose and character. Use is transformative — synthesizing dispersed reporting into a structured analytical brief with novel commentary, threat scoring, persona-lensed interpretation, and cross-source context. Briefs add new expression, meaning, and message rather than republishing the originals.
- Nature of the work. Source material is overwhelmingly factual news reporting on matters of public concern (geopolitics, markets, defense, energy, public health, technology, culture). Factual works receive thinner copyright protection than fictional works.
- Amount and substantiality. We use headline-and-figure-level excerpts, never the heart of an article. Each brief links back to the underlying source so readers visit the original.
- Effect on the market. Briefs send traffic upstream to publishers via outbound links and explicit citations. They are a substitute for nothing — the original article remains the canonical, full-detail source.
For non-U.S. readers, equivalent doctrines apply: UK fair dealing for criticism, review, and reporting current events (CDPA s. 30), EU quotation exception (InfoSoc Directive Art. 5(3)(d)), Canadian fair dealing (Copyright Act s. 29).
Nominative use of trademarks
Names of news organizations, government agencies, defense contractors, market participants, financial institutions, and historical figures are referenced under nominative fair use: only to the extent necessary to identify the underlying actor or source, with no implication of sponsorship, endorsement, or affiliation. The classic three-factor test (New Kids on the Block v. News America Publishing, 1992) is satisfied — the entity is not readily identifiable without using its name; only as much of the mark is used as needed; and nothing on the site suggests endorsement.
How we attribute
- Every brief references the source corpus pulled from Corvus Intel for the cadence in question (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly).
- Where a specific story is highlighted, we link directly to the original publisher's URL.
- Persona names (Sightline, Kensington, The Pressbox, Cipher Desk, etc.) are stylistic framings created for Apprised.news; they are not real bylines and do not represent any individual.
- Historical-power-persona lenses (Napoleon, Hearst, Morgan, Carnegie, Bell, Edison, etc.) are interpretive framings used for analytical commentary on present-day reporting, consistent with U.S. fair use.
- Presidential back-test lenses are interpretive frames; they are not endorsements of any administration's policy choices and do not impersonate any sitting or former officeholder.
What we do not do
- We do not reproduce articles in full.
- We do not paywall-bypass any publisher.
- We do not strip bylines, datelines, or publisher attribution from quoted material.
- We do not represent AI personas as real human analysts.
- We do not sell, syndicate, or relicense third-party reporting.
Citing Apprised.news
Suggested citation:
Apprised.news. (2026). [Brief title — Desk, Cadence]. Retrieved [Date], from https://apprised.news/[path]
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Corrections
Spotted an error in a brief? Contact us with the brief URL, the cadence (daily/weekly/monthly/etc.), and the source URL. We log corrections and append them to the affected brief.