Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints

Note: Don't post anything at all from the Las Vegas Review Journal or anything from organizations run by Stevens Media, LLC or RightHaven, LLC until the lawsuit brought against us by them is resolved.

Here's an updated alphabetical list of the sites that have complained about copyright violations thus far. The posting program will only allow excerpts and or deny posting where designated from the following sites:

These sites must be excerpted and linked only [300 words or less, 1/2 the words or less for short articles]:

These publishers have asked us not to allow any material at all to be posted to FR:

Received another letter from Gannett Publications, publisher of USAToday, and several other newspapers. Due to contractual arrangements they have with third-party content providers, they have denied our request to allow posting of excerpts. They will only allow the posting of titles and links.

Please do not post full text or even excerpts from the following Gannett Web sites:

All material from the Associated Press must be excerpted regardless of source (very brief excerpts). AP photos are not allowed.

Photographs, pictures, images, graphs etc may not be posted if the websites are on the lists or added in any of the posts below.

Jeepers! What spoilsports! People don't want to buy the whole mag just for one article. Besides, if these sour grapes people put their news online, then there should be no qualifiers. Thanks for the consolidated list though.

The Washington Post requires your life story for its "free" registration.

You tell them the truth??? I always put in the wrong sex, my brother's birthday, my sister's zip code....

I thought they were good questions - mostly I wondered if FR was getting singled out and other sites were posting with impunity....haven't gotten any answers yet, though.

I don't see anyone mentioning the DMCA, which is a whole different ballgame from copyright law.

Posting an entire article has always been a copyright violation, so far as I know. Particularly if it's done all the time. It can hardly be called fair use if it causes economic harm.

However, I don't understand the restriction on the second list. You can't link in those sites at all? I don't think even the DMCA has been used for that restriction yet.

First post, so apologies if I've addressed it incorrectly.

I guess the concept of a "free press" escapes these idiots.

Don't they know they get more hits? More clicks to ads? Are they so short-sighted they just can't grasp the Internet yet?

Copyright is all but moot when it comes to links and posts. What's funny is that EVERY SINGLE ONE of these whiners (okay, almost every one) have an "e-mail this article" option on their own site.

So what's the difference other than they are left wing a-holes that just can't stand their crap being torn apart in forums like this?

192 posted on 04/09/2004 1:33:41 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Ðíé F£éðérmáú§ ^;;^ says, "Please explain to me how Democrats are different from Terrorist")

I think most of these people have been looking the other way for all these years. Your guess is as good as mine as to why they've all suddenly decided to go hard ass on us (and all at the same time, LOL).

They are grouping together for the same reason the last remnants of the hard core terrorist from Iran, Syria and left-over Saddam Ba'athist have circled their wagons in the Sunni Triangle.

It's desperation. Their last act of control they think they have because they are getting slammed not only here, but I'll bet FReepers are also e-mailing them, calling them, writing them, etc.

We should call them the Al-PissedOff!

194 posted on 04/09/2004 1:44:57 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Ðíé F£éðérmáú§ ^;;^ says, "Please explain to me how Democrats are different from Terrorist")

You know, looking at that list, there are quite a few "small time" newspapers on there, so you KNOW someone is over here taking down names of every newspaper that we've used in posts!!! Doesn't the DU deserve the same??

Oh I am so sure none of this is personal! Nope, no politics involved at all! I canceled Vanity Fair magazine! I don't want their trash if this is the way they feel.

Your post gave me an idea. I'm always getting calls from the Chicago Tribune to subscribe to their paper. From now on I will tell them that in no way would I subscribe since they banned FR from using news from their paper. Maybe we should write to these individual papers that are in each of our areas. I will write to the Chicago Tribune since I'm in it's readership zone. If we all do that, they may think twice!!!

I posted about this on the Illinois board. I've already written to the Chicago Tribune. If each of us posts this on their state board & gets members there to write their local papers, we can start our own movement!! Hope it helps. If anyone would like to send out this idea to a ping list, feel free.

>>Do you know how Drudge works around this copyright thing?

He does not post full text, nor does he retain any articles of full text - he only links.

Thanks for the flag. I've got the picture. The damnable news sites don't want a history of their manipulative stories anywhere but on their site. They can suck hind tit as far as I'm concerned. I'll save stories of interest on my own as far as that's concerned. Sue me. I give a rats as*. Can't suck blood from a turnip.

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