Great news.
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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”
I'm so sad.
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.
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
related.
http://watchingthewatchers.org/indepth/1392558/flyonthewall-not-squashed
Flyonthewall Not Squashed
Now, that’s a ‘awhsh!t’ moment!!
“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.
As much as I’d like to see copyright law revised to reflect reality and as much as I despise Righthaven, this isn’t the right decision. The notion of “fair use” is pretty good actually, it’s when pinheads like Righthaven try to claim that any use of their material constitutes infringement that things go off the cliff. The intellectual property of content creators needs to be protected, and a revised Fair Use policy could do that. It’s a balance.
I expect this ruling will be appealed and overturned.