[Alex Murphy]

The Las Vegas Sun reports that Righthaven has signed up Media News as a client and has sued a blogger on behalf of the Denver Post, after the blogger apparently reposted a Denver Post column by Mike Rosen (with a link and credit). This is interesting for a few different reasons. First, it was just a few weeks ago that the Denver Post published a cryptic "reminder" about copyright that had a bunch of people scratching their heads.

Bye bye, Denver Post! No more free advertising for you!

[a fool in paradise]

I suspect that some of the “news” sources are more upset with FReepers exposing faulty ‘facts’ and debating the opinions in the original articles.

The level of “debate” on news websites is non-existent. 1/3rd spam, 1/3rd bot-responses to certain words or phrases in a forum post, and 1/4 name-calling (Repugutard teabagger et al). Yahoo and other sites are completely unreadable in the commentary.

And writing a letter to the editor is a pointless exercise (most won’t see print, and some may be so heavily edited before they go to press that the original intent has been flipped).

[CedarDave]

Bye bye, Denver Post! No more free advertising for you!

It's not quite that bad. From the Denver Post copyright reminder:

... fair use of our content restricts those who want to reference it to reproduce no more than a headline and up to a couple of paragraphs or a summary of the story. (We also request users provide a link to the entire work on our website). The fair use rule generally does not entitle users to display the whole story or photograph on their website. To do so is a violation of our copyright and we will use all legal remedies available to address these infringements.

Read more: Notice to readers about Denver Post copyright protections - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/ci_16594528#ixzz17TyE1beL Read The Denver Post's Terms of Use of its content: http://www.denverpost.com/termsofuse