[...] of hyperlocal sites all over eastern Massachusetts — not the kind of robotic aggregators that Gatehouse sued the Globe about, but real sites with local [...]

[...] auch die Lokalzeitung von Newton verwendet (die zum Konzern GateHouse Media gehört). Daraufhin verklagte GateHouse prompt die New York Times (Besitzerin des Boston Globe) wegen Verstosses gegen [...]

[...] from GateHouse newspapers and other sources. Among other claims, GateHouse said the Times Co. was violating its trademark by attributing headlines and ledes to GateHouse newspapers. The Times Co. said the lawsuit was [...]

[...] come across it without a little search-engine optimization help. This is one reason (among many) we publish transcripts of our videos whenever we produce a new one — Google can read transcripts just [...]

[...] von Newton, die zusammen mit Dutzenden anderen Zeitungen GateHouse Media gehört. Und GateHouse verklagt daraufhin prompt die New York [...]

[...] come across it without a little search-engine optimization help. This is one reason (among many) we publish transcripts of our videos whenever we produce a new one — Google can read transcripts just [...]

[...] the case. (Here’s everything we’ve written so far, but if you’re new to the case, start with this post.) What follows are some unresolved questions and everyone’s best stabs at an [...]

[...] from the courthouse that the parties in GateHouse v. New York Times Co. (see our previous posts here, here, and here) have settled out of court. Details on the settlement to come as soon as we have [...]

[...] David Ardia of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society has a long discussion of the case on the Nieman Journalism Lab website. Ardia’s Citizen Media Law Project at the Berkman Center also has a page dedicated to the [...]

[...] (I can’t help smiling when I read a news article and come across a Berkmanite.) He shares more thoughts and analysis about the situation via an interview on a Harvard Nieman Foundation site. You post content; they get [...]

[...] York Times Co. linking dispute quite a bit recently. (See our previous posts on the case here and here.) To recap: NYT Co.’s Boston Globe is republishing the headline and first graf of [...]

I believe this is NOT fair use and Gatehouse is right to ask the courts to stop it, even if others think it is better for Gatehouse if they don’t. This issue has come up many times before but the parties always settle. Hopefully, we’ll get a ruling here.

Then all these aggregators who are essentially stealing the good work of content producers for the aggregators’ benefit and, I believe, to the detriment of the content producers, will be on notice.

So it’s unlikely both companies are going to be successful in the same markets. So GateHouse is faced with this proposition of either stopping their competitor, or perhaps trying to find some way to differentiate themselves. And there are a couple of ways, I think, they could have handled this short of filing a lawsuit.

I’m not sure I’d agree with this. Where I live, in Watertown, Gatehouse also owns the local paper. The circulation is about ~4000, in a town with 14k households. Multiple competitors could both grow for a long time before they were duking it out over the last customer.

[...] by reproducing the stories’ headlines and first graf. (For background on the case, see our earlier post, which outlines some of the legal arguments of both sides and details what’s at stake. The [...]