In my opinion no, I never recommend rewriting stories it's not the best way to prove your online presence. I have seen on numerous occasions that people get caught and end up embarrassed for rewriting other's work. When you want to write something you need to say it from your hands. It's ok to citate some good resources but rewriting a story and claiming to be yours look silly. There is a huge industry that thrives on this. It's called Para-phrasing, Especially in SEO industry it's pretty common to Para phrase. But is it a good strategy? I recommend staying away from it unless you are completely out of resources.

If you rewrite something make sure you add some of your own story to it. Or combine multiple resources together so that it doesn't look as if you took it from a single place. Most people tend to ignore rewriting but if you keep stealing from the same source and rewriting its obvious they might get pissed off. One of my friends was regular to a news site most of his website contents were rewritten from the news site source. Once he got a cease and desist letter from the news site to take down the whole site. He was forced to do to avoid legal battle with the news giant. All his work and the money he spent to rewrite the article got wasted.

There has been some claim that copyright does not hold on rewritten articles and you can actually get away with your article if you are sued, then again why get into all these problems when you can actually write articles from information available online totally for free.

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