[PastorBooks]

Bad news. A NY judge decided that a website that posts clips from articles is against copyright.

This is against the way the internet works and will obviously lead to more court cases, but for now the newspapers have something new to sue over.

"Buggy whip makers, unite!"

Here we go again... :(

[PastorBooks]

The link didn’t copy over:

http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/22/ap-wins-big-why-a-court-said-clipping-content-is-not-fair-use/

[PastorBooks]

Here is discussion on Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428979

[Hardraade]

So Drudge is going out of business?

[Dallas59]

Ok. Then it may come down to reading the article then posting your own summary of it without any links to the "copyrighted" stuff.

That way hardly anyone would visit the website to read the real story. Dear news sites...Foot>Gun>Shoot.

[bigbob]

I don’t see a problem with this. If a site steals content, everyone should agree that’s wrong. If if they tease and refer to the originator, it should be a win-win for both. I’m no more apt to see an ad on another site than on Drudge, where he does exactly this.

For example, if FR limited the content to a “headline” and a link, it’d be fine by me. I seldom read articles that are posted in threads anyhow, I’ll nearly always click through to the original source anyhow.

[Chad N. Freud]

I consider FR ongoing education.

Surely there is some provision in copyright law for scholars to quote from primary sources, as long as proper attribution is attached.

[mrsmith]

http://www.therobingroom.com/Judge.aspx?ID=1403

They don’t like the jusge at the robing room!

Ruling seems too harsh. Though this aggregator is making big bucks the ruling would hurt ‘commentators’ if more leeway is not allowed.

[Tunehead54]

Ping! Careful ... fair use decision ...

[Mike Darancette]

This should help keep the voter information level low.

[PastorBooks]

Here is a summary of the finding:

Sorry Fair Use, Court Says News Clipping Service Infringes On AP Copyrights
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130321/13345322408/court-finds-meltwaters-news-clipping-service-infringes-ap-copyrights.shtml

This is a link to the decision:

S D N Y 1 12 Cv 01087 156 (PDF)
http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/626405/s-d-n-y-1-12-cv-01087-156.pdf

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Not a problem for me. I just read the headlines and give my in depth opinions from that.

[xzins]

The seems to be saying that an annotated bibliography of AP articles on a particular subject is a copyright infringement, betcause that sounds like what the company was doing.

[abb]

Some history on the quaint custom of “copyright.” It began with efforts by government to control the spread of ideas it might not agree with. Some things never change.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_copyright_law

The origin of copyright law in most European countries lies in efforts by the church and governments to regulate and control the output of printers.[6] Before the invention of the printing press, a writing, once created, could only be physically multiplied by the highly laborious and error-prone process of manual copying by scribes. An elaborate system of censorship and control over scribes existed.[7] Printing allowed for multiple exact copies of a work, leading to a more rapid and widespread circulation of ideas and information (see print culture).[6] Pope Alexander VI issued a bull in 1501 against the unlicensed printing of books and in 1559 the Index Expurgatorius, or List of Prohibited Books, was issued for the first time.[7]