Posted on 07/02/2009 4:22:45 PM PDT by EBH
"Free-riding is ubiquitous," David says. "These parasitic aggregators are capturing the heart of the stories so that readers have no need to visit the site of the original story." (snip)
"It's unfair competition with unjust enrichment," Marburger says. (Snip)
"If the copyright law doesn't open the way for originators of news to stop the free-riding, newspapers will die," he said. "No exceptions." (Snip)
The Marburgers recommend amending the federal Copyright Act to provide two remedies for unjust enrichment:
• Aggregators would reimburse newspapers for ad revenues associated with their news reports.
• Injunctions would bar aggregators' profiting from newspapers' content for the first 24 hours after stories are posted.
Marburger anticipates the rebuttal: "Newspapers want to monopolize the truth."
His response: "No, we want to temporarily stop the unfair practice of those who use the sweat of our brow to compete against us." (snip)
In taking our cause to Congress, we should borrow from the strategy of successful political campaigns: Agree on a message, sum it up with a catchy phrase -- "No Free Ride" maybe? -- and then pound the drumbeat for change.
I implore fellow columnists to add their voices to the chorus and nudge not only elected leaders, but leaders in our own companies. Plain Dealer Publisher Terry Egger backs the Marburger plan. Other news organizations should join him, including Advance Publications, which owns this paper.
The chance to save newspapers fades a little more with each passing day. Journalists know that a deadline missed is an opportunity lost.
This time, there will be no second edition to get it right.
(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland.com ...
News, information, and control of the web. They will find a way.
I think they are shooting themselves in their remaining good foot.
you don’t make money off the news, you make it off the ads.
the news is just so much filler these days
Translated, this is the shut down dissent bill. They don’t want anyone criticizing their reporting and they guise it in protecting their copyright.
How about - stop writing one sided propaganda?
A return to reporting, not inventing, hiding, or blending, the news to suit a political agenda is another possible way to save the industry ... but that’s never crossed their minds.
This is aimed directly at FreeRepublic.
lolol
I think the newspapers should get credit and remuneration for the original ‘news’ content that they invent. The news that is truly bullshit and has no basis in fact or foundation of truth.
We’ll be left with nothing but vanity posts.
In effect, this bans linking on the web. Good luck with that you crusty fossils, AP tried this already and failed.
And AP is falling apart.
Post the Haha gfx.
And why would I pay to hear more of the MSM giving fellatio to Obama at every news cycle?
I don’t see how. Neither apply to FR.
• Aggregators would reimburse newspapers for ad revenues associated with their news reports.
• Injunctions would bar aggregators’ profiting from newspapers’ content for the first 24 hours after stories are posted.
How about the “newspapers” just try to report the news rather than spew the dnc line? That is a novel idea, but I’ll bet it would work.
Well, without FreeRepublic, I would never hear of most of these articles, or read them. Without FR, I would never be linked and go to their webpage, where I am exposed to their advertising.
THEY OUGHT TO PAY US.
You seriously need to go back and read the rules of liberal infomation warfare.
Shocking, her perspective. Not.
Now you’re talking...
What are they going to ban next? Reading printed newspapers and magazines in libraries?
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