Newspaper Death Watch: Merciful End to a Pointless Lawsuit
Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 09:58
"In our opinion, Gatehouse had a legitimate gripe, but its mistake was paying lawyers to deal with a problem that could have been easily – and more beneficially – solved with technology. Basically, Gatehouse missed the opportunity to turn lemons into lemonade. Instead of issuing a cease-and-desist, Gatehouse could have simply intercepted any traffic referred from a Boston.com URL and redirected it to a landing page. That page could have been used for anything Gatehouse wanted, such as a subscription promotion or even a redirect to the home page of the publication being linked to."
Editor & Publisher: GateHouse, Times Co. Settlement Leaves Big Web Question Unanswered
Monday, 26 January 2009, 20:26
"In a three-page letter of understanding settling their lawsuit, The New York Times Co.'s Boston.com will stop automatically grabbing content from GateHouse Media hyper-local sites, and GateHouse will build defenses to guard against losing its content to aggregating tools."
Media Nation: How the GateHouse suit looks from both sides
Tuesday, 23 December 2008, 21:28
"I don't want to prejudge the lawsuit GateHouse Media filed against the New York Times Co., which owns the Boston Globe and Boston.com, except to say it's a fascinating case that will be watched closely by everyone in the news business."
Global Voices Online: Denmark: “Deep Linking” Under Fire by Newspaper Publishers
Sunday, 23 November 2008, 00:07
"Regardless of what is considered normal practice around the world, the Danish Association of Newspaper Publishers insist they only want homepage links, so they can better control the user experience. Specifically, the Danish Newspaper Publishers Association are frustrated that Google News in Denmark wants to list and link to articles of Danish newspapers without paying them royalties."
