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Judge Rules that Reposting an Entire Article Without Permission Is ‘Fair Use’
Media Bistro ^ | 6/21/11 | Ujala Sehgal

Posted on 06/22/2011 12:58:30 AM PDT by paltz

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1 posted on 06/22/2011 12:58:32 AM PDT by paltz
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To: paltz

Great news.


2 posted on 06/22/2011 1:01:08 AM PDT by NoLibZone (Impeach Obama for among other things , violating the War Powers Act.)
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To: Jim Robinson

ping


3 posted on 06/22/2011 1:03:40 AM PDT by paltz
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To: paltz; Jim Robinson

4 posted on 06/22/2011 1:04:59 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("If you're not fiscally AND socially conservative, you're not conservative!" - Jim Robinson, 9-1-10)
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To: paltz

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/fair-use-defense/
“Righthaven Loss: Judge Rules Reposting Entire Article Is Fair Use”

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/righthaven-legal-action/
“Bloggers Mull Legal Action Against Righthaven”


5 posted on 06/22/2011 1:07:36 AM PDT by iowamark
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To: paltz
The dinosaur media just had another death spasm.

I'm so sad.

6 posted on 06/22/2011 1:14:57 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Holy flippin' crap, Sarah rocks the world!)
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To: paltz

It’s really silly.

When I look at a posted article, I often go back to the original, and sometimes take a look around the site, reading other articles.

If anything, IMHO reading reposted articles INCREASES the eyeballs on the site. I certainly don’t read, say, Der Spiegal, unless a freeper posts an article from it.


7 posted on 06/22/2011 2:09:49 AM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: I still care

The distinction between fair use and not, should have been this simple.

F.R. Is a donor funded website, and has no advertising.
If the website (FR) does not benefit from the hit count (paid by advertisers), then FR is not stealing the hits or the money from another website.

In fact, it does quite the opposite. There are TONS of websites I would never have visited, had someone not mentioned or linked it or sourced it.

As far as being ‘required’ to excerpt, I don’t really want the WHOLE article, especially if long, at the top of the thread. Being able to open the ‘source’ in another window to read and refer to while I’m posting is quite helpful.

I don’t mind hitting the source page and letting them get a ‘hit’ from me so an advertiser pays them. The advertisements are what provide much of the revenue on the net.

The MSM’s that sued or restrict their articles from being even sourced are not made because F.R. is ‘stealing’ revenue from them. They know it’s not true. What they are mad about is what we SAY about their articles.


8 posted on 06/22/2011 2:37:06 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: I still care
Interestingly, the Review-Journal does not put its entire paper on its website.

For example, it withholds articles from sources it pays to print, like AP wire stories. Not even a headline from the print newspaper with a link. AP has its own internet posting requirements.

yitbos

9 posted on 06/22/2011 2:38:49 AM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: UCANSEE2
Yet, The Review-Journal is considered quite the conservative paper.

yitbos

10 posted on 06/22/2011 2:42:26 AM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks paltz.
The lawsuit was brought by Righthaven
Righthaven will be rightly blamed for helping to gut the copyright laws, which means, a massive class-action lawsuit by all copyright holders who want in -- directed against Righthaven and all its litigators, plus whatever entities hired it in the first place. Should be good.


11 posted on 06/22/2011 3:31:52 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: paltz

POS parasite lawyers go down again. Yesterday the parasites who sued Walmart lost big on a sex discrimination class action law suit. And are out 7 million for their efforts and will hopefully pay millions more in Walmart’s attorney’s fees


12 posted on 06/22/2011 3:36:48 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: UCANSEE2

“...What they are mad about is what we SAY about their articles.”

Agree your post, but possibly what they are mad about is, or could be the same reason they are liberals in most cases. They don’t get it. They don’t get much of anything.


13 posted on 06/22/2011 4:10:02 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: I still care

Agreed. The MSM old-media types have no concept of what a content portal is. They still somehow believe people will come to their bland, one-size-fits-all website which besides the articles and some video only offers advertising. There is no common or shared interest other than a political bent. Internet patrons gravitate to appealing content, not a name.


14 posted on 06/22/2011 4:18:06 AM PDT by Justa
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To: paltz

related.

http://watchingthewatchers.org/indepth/1392558/flyonthewall-not-squashed
Flyonthewall Not Squashed


15 posted on 06/22/2011 4:22:14 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: paltz

Now, that’s a ‘awhsh!t’ moment!!


16 posted on 06/22/2011 5:00:03 AM PDT by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: I still care

Exactly.

The fact that the Onion, for instance, went all out to prevent articles from being linked or excerpted on Free Republic never made sense to me. I normally don’t go to the Onion; when I am “surfing” the internet, there are only a couple of sites I frequent, and unless something is referenced, I’m not going to go to it. Mostly, I forget that the Onion even exists. But if someone excerpts an article or links a video from the Onion, I may end up spending quite a bit of time on that site.


17 posted on 06/22/2011 5:54:53 AM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: paltz

“Judge Rules that Reposting an Entire Article Without Permission Is ‘Fair Use’”

This won’t stand. The creator of written content owns that property, regardless of what some collectivist Marxist judge says.

And be forewarned, all you content thieves and scrapers. Google will soon roll out Part 3 in its Panda algorithym update that will target duplicate content. All you thieves scraping content will find yourselves delisted from Google. Or the page 1 SERP of your website could fall to page 3,999.

That means you lose visitors, and your income from Adsense will dry up.


18 posted on 06/22/2011 6:35:18 AM PDT by sergeantdave (The democrat party is a seditious organization that must be outlawed)
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To: NoLibZone

(F) When you read the article it says only a few of the paragraphs were the author’s original opinion.

(O) I would like to see a requirement that all media separate fact from opinion by paragraph with an “F” or “O” label for each as appropriate. With the reduced cognitive skills of the populous this would make it easier for the majority to tell the difference between someone peeing on their leg and rain.


19 posted on 06/22/2011 6:52:10 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: UCANSEE2
As far as being ‘required’ to excerpt, I don’t really want the WHOLE article, especially if long, at the top of the thread. Being able to open the ‘source’ in another window to read and refer to while I’m posting is quite helpful.

One important reason to post the entire article is the ephemeral nature of the web. We've seen a lot of 'inconvienient' articles published by legacy media just disappear down the memory hole. Without our archives, it would just be gone.



20 posted on 06/22/2011 7:14:34 AM PDT by zeugma (The only thing in the social security trust fund is your children and grandchildren's sweat.)
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