Wednesday, July 29, 2009

This Is Not Irony.

A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web
New York Times, July 23, 2009
By: Richard Perez-Pena

[Excerpt:]

Executives at newspapers and other traditional news organizations have long complained about how some sites make money from their work, putting ads on pages with excerpts from articles and links to the sources of the articles.


Another complaint is that a link to an article sometimes leads to another secondhand user, not the original source, which can deprive the creator of some of the audience for its own site and the ads on it. Some less-well-known sites reprint articles outright, or large parts of them, without permission, a clearer copyright violation. But there is little consensus on how extensive that problem is for news organizations.

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