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New York Times Settles Linking Suit

Peter Brantley
January 27, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Listen

In what many of us thought was a slightly bizarre case, the New York Times Co. has settled with GateHouse Media in a suit attempting to cease the automated aggregation of Gatehouse content on Boston.com's affiliated properties (Boston.com is owned by the Times Co.). It is not clear why the settlement was reached, since precedence was on the side of the Times' operation.

Mathew Ingram examines the settlement at the Nieman Journalism Lab:

Because while the settlement is not a legally-binding precedent -- the one piece of what might be called good news -- it still involves the New York Times voluntarily refraining from what many would argue is perfectly defensible behaviour. As Joshua Benton notes in his post at the Nieman Journalism Lab, that could well embolden other publications to launch similar cases, on the assumption that if the NYT caved then someone else might too. [Links included in original post.]

Related Stories:

• GateHouseGate: Why Did the New York Times Wimp Out?
• Links: The Simple Solution for Context
• Publishing 2.0: "How Newsrooms Throw Away Value By Not Linking To Sources On The Web"
• Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions (2000): Tickemaster Corp. v. Tickets.com, Inc.
• Wired (2002): "Public Protests NPR Link Policy"

TOC Recommended Reading

Mac Slocum
July 24, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Listen

Lessons Learned from myebook and LinkedIn (Joe Wikert's Publishing 2020 Blog)

Where are the "view comments" and "send to a friend" buttons on my Kindle? They don't exist, at least not with Kindle 1.0. But why shouldn't I be able to take pieces of the book I'm reading and send them along to my friends with Kindles for their review? And all those notes and comments I've already embedded in some of my Kindle books/newspapers/magazines...why can't I share those with my Kindle friends as well?

Why Abundance Should Breed Optimism: A Second Reply to Nick Carr (Clay Shirky - Britannica Blog)

Every past technology I know of that has increased the number of producers and consumers of written material, from the alphabet and papyrus to the telegraph and the paperback, has been good for humanity.

The founder of ArtsJournal talks about arts and new media (Crosscut Seattle)

As users have more access to more information on the Web, the sheer amount becomes overwhelming. So increasingly you have to depend on curators -- other people -- to find the good stuff that you want to see over time. So you find the curator whom you trust.

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