Folio: Publishers Reach Quiet Settlement with Mygazines
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 16:03
"Lawyers representing a large swath of consumer and b-to-b publishers—including Time Inc., Hearst, Hachette, McGraw-Hill, American Media Inc., Reed Business Information, Bonnier, Ziff Davis and Forbes, among others—settled their case against the proprietors of Mygazines.com on September 8, according to court documents obtained by FOLIO:."
medienlese.com: Neininger von news1.ch: “Was Google macht, ist illegal”
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 15:31
A Swiss regional newspapers publisher is still arguing that Google News is illegal because it requires you to opt out if you don't want your archive to be "plundered". But their solution makes sense: News1.ch hopes to compete with Google News by pooling regional newspapers' content at the national level.
TorrentFreak: News Site Criticized for Linking to Pirate Bay Torrents
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 15:24
"The Swedish news site Nyheter24 has been criticized for including a list of most downloaded TV-shows on their site, and linking directly to the torrent detail pages on The Pirate Bay." (The direct links seem to have been removed since this was published)
Guido Fawkes: Thieving Parasitical Journalists
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 23:44
"Guido always tries to credit the source of a story with a link. It is not just honest and good manners, it pays dividends in traffic terms. Here is the difference in understanding between online writers and dead tree writers. Bloggers understand that if you increase the usefulness of your site with useful links, you get more traffic. Something that the dead tree press has only just realised…"
CNET News.com: The Iconoclast: New magazine-sharing site escapes copyright laws abroad
Monday, 18 August 2008, 10:02
"Mygazines is registered in the Caribbean island of Anguilla and hosted in Sweden, by the notorious PRQ. The Stockholm-based PRQ is owned by the founders of BitTorrent tracker site Pirate Bay and is known for hosting other dubious sites."
Wednesday, 18 June 2008, 13:41
Comments
"If The Atlantic, with its top shelf editorial standards, can [quote from a blogger's site without permission], then why can’t a blogger quote AP — almost as if the AP were a person?"
Thursday, 1 May 2008, 19:01
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Is screen-scraping a website legal in the UK? (MP3) It could be limited by copyright law or the Computer Misuse Act.
Thursday, 1 May 2008, 19:01
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Is screen-scraping a website legal in the UK? (MP3) It could be limited by copyright law or the Computer Misuse Act.
Tuesday, 5 February 2008, 09:49
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"U.S. law has not caught up with search-engine technology and its implications" - based on James Grimmelmann’s article in the Iowa Law Review.
Sunday, 3 February 2008, 10:59
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"A butcher has been driven radio ga ga after [the Performing Rights Society] told him he was flouting the law - by playing a battered transistor in his Rotherham shop."
Belgian newspapers may sue EC over web links to stories
Monday, 21 January 2008, 06:01
Belgium’s French- and German-language newspapers may sue the European Commission over online links to newspaper articles, Bloomberg reported last week.
Copiepresse, the same organisation that sued Google over the Google News aggregator last year, says two web sites belonging to the European Commission may be infringing copyright laws by linking to Belgian newspapers’ articles.
Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 23:31
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"Gawker is now hosting a copy of the video; it’s newsworthy; and we will not be removing it."
Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 23:31
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"Gawker is now hosting a copy of the video; it’s newsworthy; and we will not be removing it."
Tuesday, 8 January 2008, 16:37
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"The Government has said it wants to create a new exception to copyright law for private copying, or format shifting, such as the copying of a purchased CD to an MP3 player. "The exception would only apply to personal or private use," says the proposal."
