So the biggest news at U of Miami is drunk people swimming in a lake? That's sub-pathetic. If the Clarion newspaper would have written a story about the TONS of drunk people who have gone swimming in the river (clothed and unclothed) they would have been a laughingstock. Why they don't dry the lake up is beyond me if it's such a hazard.
And as to whether they can post things that were posted on another site - NO. Ex-Mr 33's band had a website with performance photos on it. To make things interesting, some were taken by the singer's wife, who is a professional photographer. That doesn't give (for example) the Post-Gazette the right to reprint these photos without permission beside a story about the state of the Pittsburgh music scene - even if they quoted some of the members of the band.
Another thing like this was the ex-editor of Glamour (who now is at the Star
) put Catherine Zeta Jones on a cover and did a story that was cobbled together from other stories she'd done for the other mags that Conde Nast (Glamour's parent) publishes. CZJ did NOT give permission for her photo to be on this cover, and while technically it wasn't illegal, it's really frowned on and no journalist who wants to keep a good reputation would do it.