Content creation vs. content curation has become a controversial subject at where I work. I hope my estimable colleagues can help out here. 

Recently, we had a problem with content writers plagiarized content. After, running it through copyscape the aforementioned article where detected. Currently, we have set the bar at 85% content be authenticate.

However, with content curation citing sources is a given however, how much content taken from an original article and pasted into a post even in blockquotes is allowed? 
Does, anyone have a good contributor author guideline they want to share?

@kristi-hines thank you Kristi for your insight! I tend to agree with you nothing frustrates me more than to see a a couple of copied paragraphs and a link back to an original article. Looks like some machine driven crap.

I think taking someones point of view and adding value to it whether it is a different slant or build value by adding to it thus broadening the perspective is quite another thing and is quite acceptable. I do like the idea of “The Top 20 Posts of xxxxxxx.  

@ptwylie  Occasionally, it’s definitely not a bad thing, especially if you are extending the original article’s point of view or adding to the ideas in it.  There’s one blog that I came across that came up with even craftier titles than the original, but then every article was just a quoted paragraph and link elsewhere.  Sadly, it was a business.

United States copyright law says, “Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports. There are no legal rules permitting the use of a specific number of words, a certain number of musical notes, or percentage of a work. Whether a particular use qualifies as fair use depends on all the circumstances.”
God only knows what Google says.