Category Archives: copyright

paidContent: Video: Murdoch Making News Invisible To Search Engines? Not So Fast

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"Here’s how Murdoch replied when [Sky News political editor David Speers] asked why he hasn’t blocked sites from being seen by search engines: 'I think we will. But that’s when we start charging. We do it already with the Wall Street Journal. We have a wall, but it’s not right to the ceiling.' ... He also raised the idea of challenging the doctrine of 'fair use' in court, then reigned it in a bit. “We’re getting a lot of advertising revenue so we’ll take that slowly.'"

Bloggasm: Gawker to publish Russian translation of buried GQ story critical of Vladimir Putin

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Simon Owens: "I spoke to Gawker owner Nick Denton after the post hit the web. I first asked him whether there were any concerns that the blog would be violating GQ’s copyright by reprinting the piece. 'We’ll deal with that issue when we come to it,' Denton said. 'It’s not as if we’re cutting into GQ’s Russian audience: Conde Nast wasn’t planning to publish the piece in Moscow.'"

Hartford Courant: Courant Reviews Aggregation Policy

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"Last week, The Courant received a letter from The Journal Inquirer managing editor that prompted it to review our aggregation strategy. We found that there were legitimate points of concern. Most importantly, we discovered a mistake in our editing process when we take articles from our website to our print newspaper. We found that we inappropriately dropped the attribution or proper credit and in some cases credited ourselves with a byline to a Courant reporter. Once made aware of this mistake, The Courant took immediate steps to correct the process.

MediaFile: Why I believe in the link economy

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Chris Ahearn, president, Media, Thomson Reuters: "Blaming the new leaders or aggregators for disrupting the business of the old leaders, or saber-rattling and threatening to sue are not business strategies – they are personal therapy sessions. Go ask a music executive how well it works. ... Let’s stop whining and start having real conversations across party lines. Let’s get online publishers, search engines, aggregators, ad networks, and self-publishers (bloggers) in a virtual room and determine how we can all get along. I don’t believe any one of us should be the self-appointed Internet police; agreeing on a code of conduct and ethics is in everyone’s best interests."

Slate Magazine: Why Steve Brill’s plan to build a pay wall for print content is doomed

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Jack Shafer: "What's to prevent such Web enterprises as the Huffington Post, Nick Denton's Gawker enterprise, or some startup ... from purchasing the most expensive all-tiers pass from Journalism Online and rewriting or otherwise encapsulating the best and most noteworthy walled-in articles in real time—and then selling ads against it?"

PaidContent.org: Interview: Dean Singleton, AP Chairman: Setting ‘The Rules Of Engagement’

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Dean Singleton, tells Staci Kramer: "I think our industry has been very timid about protecting our content, probably because we’ve done so well in the past few years that we didn’t recognize that misappropriation is as serious an issue as it is. As we’re now relooking at business models, it’s become clear that we must protect the rights of our content. ... We perhaps have been timid about enforcing [those rights]. No more."

Citizen Media Law Project: Do Ads in Google News Search Change the Fair Use Analysis?

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"Google's use of small amounts of copyrighted content in its Google News search results is similar to its use of copyrighted content in its other search functions, which already carry advertising. As the Ninth Circuit has recognized, Google's use of copyrighted content in search results is highly transformative because it serves the purpose of improving access to information on the Internet."

Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: How much is too much? Defining the grey areas in attribution and linking

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"Just how much of other people’s work on external sites can/should you use and how should you attribute in articles?" ... [Tom Whitwell, assistant editor of TimesOnline] ... said the subbing system and workflow in place - used for online as well as print work - meant links often got omitted. But ‘the general policy would be to link out to things’, he said."