A news site reposting articles as their own is inexcusable, and I hope those sites get reamed. But I hope these sharks run up against a brick wall on the user-submitted sites. There are few things good about the DMCA, but the takedown notice section is there specifically to protect sites like this from liability over user-submitted infringement. I bet this firm hasn’t sent one takedown notice.
JimRob shouldn’t even have to do the pre-screening that he does now. The law says copyright holders are responsible for notifying the site of any claimed infringement. The recent Viacom v. Google decision says sites are not responsible for pre-emptive enforcement.
In checking just one story at LVJR I found that the story had been posted all over the web. How can they claim CE, when what I see is nothing but reprints from other news orgs.
One interesting thing was a para in one AP story, was 1st written in 2007. Yet is reguritated as current info by author.