Is it stealing if I take information from a website and put it on my website?

Question

I see websites doing it all the time, is it called stealing? Do I have to get permission before I do this?

For Example:

Yahoo Sports get information from other websites like NFL team websites and put the information on their websites, is that legal? How did they do that?

Answer 1

Yes, it's plagiarism and it's illegal.

Yahoo gets special permission from the NFL to post things like that.

Not only do you ALWAYS have to cite things, you might have to pay for some things too.