Gatehouse and NYT Co. settle

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.

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Joshua Benton is the senior writer and former director of Nieman Lab, which he founded in 2008. You can reach him via email, Twitter (@jbenton), or Bluesky.
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