Copyright Challenge for Sites That Excerpt

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Copyright Challenge for Sites That Excerpt

By BRIAN STELTER

When the popular New York business blog Silicon Alley Insider quoted a quarter of Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal column in mid-February, the editor added a caveat at the end: “We thank Dow Jones in advance for allowing us to bring it to you.” The editor added “in advance” because Dow Jones, the publisher of The Journal, had not given the blog permission to use the column. The excerpt was published with the assumption that it would be permitted under the “fair use” statute of copyright law.

Generally, the excerpts have been considered legal, and for years they have been welcomed by major media companies, which were happy to receive links and pass-along traffic from the swarm of Web sites that regurgitate their news and information. But some media executives are growing concerned that the increasingly popular curators of the Web that are taking large pieces of the original work — a practice sometimes called scraping — are shaving away potential readers and profiting from the content.



I found this interesting, in light of my recent banning.
 

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A good policy to have would be to use a time delay system. The copyright owners keep the article to them selves for 3 months, 6 months or a year and then after that time they can sell/give the article to others that want to use it and credit the original author(s). This would help the owners maintain their audience and not have them filtered off, or at least reduce the number of readers filtered to other parts of the media.
 
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From Brian Stelter::::::::::"Generally, the excerpts have been considered legal, and for years they have been welcomed by major media companies, which were happy to receive links and pass-along traffic from the swarm of Web sites that regurgitate their news and information. But some media executives are growing concerned that the increasingly popular curators of the Web that are taking large pieces of the original work — a practice sometimes called scraping — are shaving away potential readers and profiting from the content."


I found this interesting, in light of my recent banning.
So it seems what it boils down to once again is the almighty dollar. The starter tabloid is concerned people won't be having to pay for their magazine or paper or website content if someone posts the information elsewhere.

Let's all act surprised~~nope~~Can't do that because I;m not surprised considering the level of greed most of the wealthy follks have.
Heaven forbid that people get to learn and enjoy things for free.

A good policy to have would be to use a time delay system. The copyright owners keep the article to them selves for 3 months, 6 months or a year and then after that time they can sell/give the article to others that want to use it and credit the original author(s). This would help the owners maintain their audience and not have them filtered off, or at least reduce the number of readers filtered to other parts of the media.

But after three to six months, it could be way outdated already...
Yes well that would be a problem. Then again there are people who like to get their news late and it works nicely as a history lesson at that point in time.