[...] less likely anyone will ever write about one of your stories again. This isn't even an issue about fair use, as some are suggesting. It's an issue about common sense. If you have a story, you'd better want [...]

[...] angry writers who had been ripped off rant until I came across an article by Zachary Seward, of the Neiman Journalism lab.  It is a short piece that looks at the same example and I feel it captures my beliefs on the [...]

[...] best parts — the kind of thing newspapers hate. I’m reminded of the recent dispute over Gawker’s quoting and summarizing of a 1,500-word Washington Post story. The Post article’s author thought Gawker’s post [...]

[...] Gawker and The Washington Post: A case study in fair use [Nieman Journalism Lab] [...]

[...] Gawker and The Washington Post: A case study in fair use » Nieman Journalism Lab Shapira has penned a thoughtful and balanced essay on whether Gawker’s appropriation of his work should be considered copyright infringement. (tags: news business journalism newspapers copyright fairuse gawker washingtonpost blogs niemanlab) [...]

[...] more than half of their very short post was from the WaPo story. The Nieman Journalism Lab took a look at what was used and asked it’s readers if they thought Gawker violated Fair Use or fell well [...]

[...] Percentage of words that appeared in original Post report that were directly transcribed to the Gawker piece:  15% [...]

[...] 6. Gawker and The Washington Post: A case study in fair use Washington Post reporter Ian Shapira wrote a whimsical profile of a dubious “business coach” who specializes in understanding Generation Y. (I think that includes me, but who knows.) Gawker, as is its wont, blogged about the piece, quoting extensively from the Post. Now, Shapira has penned a thoughtful and balanced essay on whether Gawker’s appropriation of his work should be considered copyright infringement. It’s exactly the situation at stake in recent threats by The Associated Press regarding the “protection” of their content. [...]

It also shows that readers “got” that the point of your post as Gawker’s post rather than Shapira’s original article (and that in any case we could go back to that, probably from Gawker’s post, as I know I did). On top of that one could argue that editorialized links (“whimsical”; “thoughtful and balanced”) do have an impact on a reader’s decision to click on a link or not.

There are more links on your piece you don’t mention. I suppose that rather than assuming that readers were not interested on those links, it’s possible to think that we already had –or thought we had– that context, so clicking on them was not deemed necessary to understand the post.

[...] blog, Felix Salmon does some calculations about Gawker and blog profitability, following a post on the Nieman Journalism Lab. “(…) overall it’s easy to see how Gawker has now grown to the point at which [...]

[...] Nieman journalism lab ved Harvard har sett nærmere på tallene og kommet frem til at en standard bloggpost hos Gawker koster cirka $ 20 å produsere, mens den for tiden genererer cirka $ 200 i inntekter – ikke dårlig for et mediehus i dag. Nettsiden har 177 skribenter (freelance formodentlig), og Hamilton Nolan som er mest lest, produserer cirka 260 bloggposter i måneden. Dette summerer seg til 3,4 millioner kroner i året i profitt for Nolan eller, gitt at alle skribentene produserer like mye som ham (en drøy antagelse, men det gir oss en ide om hvor taket ligger), 600 mill i året for hele selskapet. [...]

1. “blogged” (Gawker post)
2. “posited” (Anderson’s post on fair use)
3. “thoughtful and balanced essay” (Shapira’s piece on Gawker)
4. “whimsical profile” (Shapira’s original article)
5. “standards” (Wikipedia article on fair use)

[...] Gawker and The Washington Post: A case study in fair use "Whatever your personal opinion about U.S. copyright law and how it should apply on the Internet, judges who consider the question are obliged to weigh four standards of fair use, including the extent of republication, whether the reuse is itself unique, and how it all affects the commercial market for the original content." (tags: newspapers business law copyright journalism) Share this [...]