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.

2 posted on 04/05/2004 3:54:31 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)

5 posted on 04/05/2004 3:57:41 PM PDT by Joe Hadenuf (I failed anger management class, they decided to give me a passing grade anyway)

I know there are legal considerations, but what happens is, the original story disappears, and things I have bookmarked to keep are only stuck with an excerpt.

Also, some people get TOO enthusiastic and excerpt everything.

I read an article a week or so ago that Reuters is disallowing any unauthorized postings of their news articles. They are claiming copyright violation.

11 posted on 04/05/2004 3:59:53 PM PDT by TomGuy (Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)

Thank you Jim for this consolidated list. Excerpting for no reason seems to be rampant lately. Maybe this list will help.

For those articles that must be excerpted, I'd like to request that FReepers, when possible, link to the "printer friendly" version of the article. Way fewer graphics to wade through and hardly ever any popup ads. Those of us stuck in "56K" hell thank you :)

13 posted on 04/05/2004 4:00:40 PM PDT by upchuck (Pay attention!! This tagline changes on an irregular schedule and without prior warning.)

Those "Tribune" affiliates ~ one of their member is currently subject to a RICO investigation.

'Nuff said on that until they come down with the indictments that name names.

Once they get into the trials betcha' the Tribune people will lose their focus on allegations of copyright violations.

And before everyone rushes off to check it out, studlife.com is a website about student life at Washington University in St Louis.

They are all practicing a form of self-censorship...very revealing. I suppose it is because many of them are afraid of principled, reasoning, conservative people discussing their stories and exposing many of those stories for what they are.

Says much as to what a number of these organizations would be like to other viewpoints if they ever really had any true reign of power. Heck, many of them can't stand their own messages seeing the light of day and truth...what do you think they would do to contrary opinions if given the chance?

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

Now that's interesting, since it was usually the authors posting one-sentence excerpts here themselves...

and what the heck is studlife.com?

Studlife.com???

Student Life - Washington University in St. Louis.

yes, I had to check ;-)

18 posted on 04/05/2004 4:02:44 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)

Does that mean if I see an interesting article at pcworld.com that I can't say: "I saw an interesting article at PCWorld.Com and is a link."? Please advise... Maybe I should cancel my subscription to them? G

20 posted on 04/05/2004 4:03:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi Mac ... Become a FR Monthly Donor ... Kerry thread archive @ /~normsrevenge)

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