List of Gannett publications that cannot be posted to Free Republic per their copyright complaint

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[Freedom2specul8]

Excellent articleGretchen! I figured it didn't make all website owners happy and am not surprised to see an article about it. (especially personal ones...because of faux pas, or comments made under anger that were later regretted and retracted)

While I hope webpublishers (I'm referring to official news agencies) don't use the code mentioned..that prevents the googlecache from being utilized..right now, to me, clicking on it is fair game for us the users. (cept for the paid sites...., I understand that dilemma) I wonder if there are any current updates to that article...or legal suits about it.

It may get google in trouble..I hope it doesn't. To me, it's the same as any of us saving a webpage to harddrive, and then sending it as an email attachment to friends.

[Freedom2specul8]

"...we e-mail ourselves important articles ..."

Good idea! However, I noticed that sometimes, the website will only send you a link to their article. I think in those cases it might be better to copy and paste it to our emails, or harddrives..or a floppy disk.

[Freedom2specul8]

You're welcome Gummy..

It's really annoying..and there has to be a copyright atty out there willing to help us figure all of this out, by telling us every single option we have.

In simple terms, there are demands news websites can make in court that will either be enforced or not enforced. They won't be able to win every single case,(or be able to have the law enforce or back up every single demand they make)....I don't care how rich the atty's are.

[BushisTheMan]

So if the link goes to a request for registering, the poster should also post the userid and password so we can all share.

No sense all of us registering with this rags.

[BushisTheMan]

So if the link goes to a request for registering, the poster should also post the userid and password so we can all share.

No sense all of us registering with these rags.

[steveegg]

Nope. The battle has barely begun. Prepare for phase two.

Torpedo tubes loaded, and VLS cells ready.

[EdReform]

BTTT

[DBrow]

The "link only" rule not only serves their copyright issues, but it lets them change an online story at a moment's notice with nobody to prove the story changed.

Imagine an independent archive, with all the changes? It would make bias and cronyism and revisionism quite visible. The system they want allows them to send a story to the memory hole doublequick plusgood.

I'm going to get a Ripway and Photodump account and store their full articles there just in case their historical archive suddenly changes, and perhaps allow links to that archive. For my own limited personal use, just like a paper clipping.

[unixfox]

Fine. Why not setup a server offshore and see what they can do. They can't do anything because it will be out of the U.S. jursdiction.

Just a thought, I aint no lawyer and I don't play one on FreeRepublic.

[adam_az]

Most of their stories are just wire reports.

Find them on the Reuters, AP, etc site and grab them from there!

[adam_az]

"The primary objective of copyright is not to reward the labor of authors, but [t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts.... To this end, copyright assures authors the right to their original expression, but encourages others to build freely upon the ideas and information conveyed by a work. This result is neither unfair nor unfortunate. It is the means by which copyright advances the progress of science and art."
-- US Supreme Court Justice ***Sandra Day O'Connor***

F Gannett. Would you consider doing a special fundraising drive to pay expenses for some kick-butt pro-bono attorneys to challenge one of the sources that has restricted you to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court?

I will make the first pledge of $250 right here, right now if you will take that road.

Some folks you might want to approach -

EFF.ORG
Landmark Legal Foundation
ACLU (no kidding)

I'm sure there are others!

Jim, they are trying to shut down your great work because WE ARE WINNING!

Please, please take a stand. We will support you more than you can imagine!

[AuntB]

Good Grief. No one is going to read most of this bottom-of-the-bird-cage stuff anyway. Bookmarked.....

[ZULU]

I KNOW the Gannett New Organ.

It operates a series of anti-American, far-left wing news rags and constitutes a new empire of yellow journalism.

I think it would be interesting to know WHO exactly RUNS this leftist news empire. I'd also like to know what OTHER organs, if any, they control.

They are evil and justifiably fear exposure of their biased and non-sensical articles.

[Bryan]

But if I see even one LEFT wing site or any neutral site that's getting away with it, I'm going to scream bloody murder.

An editorial that whined incessantly about humiliation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, and was published in the Army Times, Navy Times and Air Force Times, was posted in its entirety on the Guardian, an extremely left-wing site:

The Guardian

[Bryan]

I'm not sure about those sewers, but I do know of one Lefty site that posts full-text, with no repercussions.

Common Dreams, right?

[tomball]

Thank you for the list. (Bookmarked & Printed).

Whether Gannett knows it or not, they have just provided you with a list of newspapers that could easily be used for a nationwide Gannett boycott.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

BUMP

[an amused spectator]

No, Smirking Chimp, but Common Dreams was also fingered in an earlier post by Freeper RonDog (#205).

[Freedom2specul8]

I hate to be nosey..but if you can say anything, are you going to put up with this? Is there anything we can do to help?

Can we prevent this?