News Courtesy of Yoast.com:
You’ve probably come across the term duplicate content quite a lot, but what is it? Duplicate content is content that lives in several locations — i.e., URLs. Duplicate content can harm your rankings and many people say that copious amounts of it can even lead to a penalty by Google. That’s not true, though. There is no duplicate content penalty, but having loads of duplicate or copied content can get Google to influence your rankings negatively.
Duplicate content is everywhere — know what to do about it
Ex-Googler Matt Cutts once famously said that 20% to 30% of the web consists of duplicate content. While I’m not sure these numbers are still accurate; duplicate content continues to pop up on every site. This doesn’t have to be bad news. Fix what you can and don’t try and turn duplicate content and its siblings copied content and thin content into a viable SEO strategy.
Ryan’s Take 
Technically, this post could be considered duplicate content. The information above has been taken from Yoast’s website and curated on my blog. Am I fearful of a penalty? Not in the slightest. Content curation exists in many different mediums. People love to give their feedback on certain topics or points brought up by others. Myself included of course.
One might even argue that video game streamers are curating content. They’re streaming themselves playing the game, usually with side commentary during matches. Podcasters often reference news articles and discuss their feelings on those subjects. In the world of blogging, it makes sense to take snippets of text and then express feelings on the subject matter. As long as you’re respectful and not copying entire articles, you should be safe.
The fact that I am not trying to be deceptive by slightly altering the information from Yoast helps to avoid a penalty. If the team at Yoast or any other website for that matter had an issue with my curating their content than I would respectfully remove those posts. I don’t think there would be any legal ramifications if I refused because of fair use. I’m not trying to profit or defame the original authors. I’m merely adding my 2 cents.
Most bloggers probably appreciate when others discuss or share their work. It helps drive traffic to their website and original posts. Adding a hyperlink to these original articles might also help them in the search engine rankings too. I always leave these links as “follow” hyperlinks to give them credit. If you’re wondering about how to curate content yourself, Curata has an excellent article regarding the do’s and do not’s of content curation.
