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GateHouse v. NYT Co.
Gatehouse and NYT Co. settle
/ Jan. 26, 2009 / 9:41 a.m.
For those who don’t follow our Twitter feed, our Zach Seward reports 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 them.
So for anyone worried about how a ruling might have legally limited aggregation or linking online, your worries can now officially be…put off until the next time this comes up in court.
Should it be notable that the links to Gatehouse’s WickedLocal sites are still up on Boston.com’s Your Town sites?
The settlement gives Boston.com until March 1 to pull out all the old links to Wicked Local, it appears.
http://www.nytco.com/pdf/Agreement.pdf
Oops. Nevermind. Great work on getting the settlement documents so fast, BTW. Would have been there myself, couldn’t go; glad someone was there.
Not being a legal scholar – I know that this agreement doesn’t set legal precedent. But for the legal minds out there – can it be used in subsequent cases as a guideline? Because it does set a standard…
Ted, I just posted something along those lines:
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/01/will-media-companies-use-gatehouse-settlement-as-a-negotiating-hammer/