[...] 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 [...]

[...] However, Bob Kempf, vice president of product development at the Globe’s Boston.com, pushed back against any broader reading of the case in a phone interview late yesterday afternoon. “All this agreement really does is reaffirm our longstanding practice of respecting technological barriers that are set up by websites that want to limit our ability to aggregate content from them,” he said. He called that an ethical issue, not a legal one. (Kempf, for what it’s worth, was vice president of interactive media for GateHouse until joining the NYT Co. in 2006. Thanks to commenter Bill Simpson for pointing that out.) [...]

[...] 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 some [...]

[...] anti-web suit against the New York Times Company, attorneys for the Times presented an email from Gatehouse digital head Howard Owens — who, of course, knows how the internet works [...]

I really enjoy that this has been “roundly criticized across the blogosphere” because I think there is a good chance Gatehouse will win. I have no problem with the many bloggers who take the time to write their own take on the news but I do have a problem with the many bloggers who copy a whole story and make a one line comment (and sometimes not even that).