Posted on 04/07/2007 6:30:35 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin2
It's time for newspapers to stop giving away their stories to popular search engines such as Google, according to Samuel Zell, the real estate magnate whose bid for Tribune Co. was accepted this week.
In conversations before and after a speech Zell delivered Thursday night at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, Calif., the billionaire said newspapers could not economically sustain the practice of allowing their articles, photos and other content to be used free by other Internet news aggregators.
"If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, how profitable would Google be?" Zell said during the question period after his speech. "Not very."
Newspapers have allowed Google to use their articles in exchange for a small cut of advertising revenue, but search engines also help to distribute their content to wider online audiences. Google and Yahoo have financial arrangements with wire services, such as the Associated Press, to provide news stories and photos. Yesterday, Google settled a copyright-infringement lawsuit with Agence France-Presse, which had alleged that Google posted news summaries, headlines and photos without permission.
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Go for Zell and make your LA Times die fast than ever before HELLO
Yep, that’ll save them. Great plan. /s
Yeah, go ahead, Zell, I dare you.
So they sued.
In the end they lost, but FR quit posting their articles for the most part.
Both papers lost the vast number of on-line referrals FR was bringing them.
This Zell guy probably ought to talk to some of the internet marketing people at the LA Times before he buys them out. They used to believe what he believes and it really hurt them to attack other users.
LA Times is dyin’ and this guy is fishing. Ah well, he’s a real estate developer isn’t he, so he can always level the place and sell to the Muzzies for a Mosque.
He want get rid of chicago Cubs probably one thing that keep Chicago Tribune afloat LOL!
go figure
“If all of the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content, “
They would disappear and some bright person would start a few more Web-only news sources.
maybe hire the reporters from LATimes and WAPO?
Mr. Zell wishes to be paid for his content in the Trib & LATimes. He does not have a clue how the Internet works. Just delink the two papers from Drudge and see what happens.
Short-sighted.
Google News is an aggregator — they don’t host content, but link to it. If Google links to your story, you get the more hits and the ad revenue that comes with them. If you can’t make more money from more readers, then it’s not Google that’s the problem.
Look at FR. Different outlets have different rules. For outlets that only allow excerpts, the experts drive more readers their way. FR complies. For the orgs that allow articles to be posted in full, frankly, I don’t see the wisdom in that. Nor for the orgs that don’t allow links at all.
I wonder how many people in LaLaLand still read?
There......fixed it.
English?
Darn, the headline lead me to believe Zell Miller was going to challenge James Webb to a duel!
Hey, that was directed to me!
Also, probably 85% of the news is manufactured. All sports is manufactured news. Everything in the "Life and Leisure" section of the paper is manufactured news. All celebrity news is manufactured news. 85% of the business articles are press releases from companies.
If the Dallas Morning News put an embargo on internet entities carrying their coverage of the Dallas Cowboys, would it really make any difference? You can go to Fox, ABC, NBC, CNN, ESPN, the Dallas Cowboys website, or any of several hundred different sources to find more information about the Dallas Cowboys than you could ever digest.
The simple fact is they're not dealing with a product where the flow can be restricted.
Attitudes toward intellectual property rights have been temporarily insane for 10 years or so and may be regaining their sanity.
Information never really did want to be free.
Nor should it have.
While manual labor is worthy and productive, the Book of Proverbs refers repeatedly to the wise words of a man’s mouth being—in many cases—what makes him worthy of his wages.
Love it!
A self-imposed poison pill.
Good riddance.
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