Great question. I can only speak for myself. I do use other sources as a reference and use screenshot to highlight certain passages. As I class myself as an 'investigative journalist' I am simply giving an opinion on information freely available over the internet. I would say that in my own case, the money I receive is for the effort in collating the data to form an educated opinion. It is the opinion not the sources that are the Primary feature of almost all of my articles. I always list sources and insist readers look at that persons work to then understand my stand-point. I think in a court of law that could work....maybe. Can't agree more with the need to deter from blatant piss taking of the steemit rewards. Can't really give a vote to someone just re-posting a video or article, in its entirety, not when they haven't even bothered to make it their own in any way.
Totally see why this needs discussion, great post.
simple things please simple minds maybe..