It’s been four months since Josh predicted that a news organization would sue The Huffington Post for copyright violation over its aggregation of headlines, ledes, and article summaries. The interim has been marked by saber-rattling, settlements, and dubious proposals for changes to federal law.
But I’m still hoping to see that lawsuit — not because [...]

Over the past several weeks, we’ve been ramping up our use of Twitter to share interesting links, promote our work, interact with readers, and collaborate on reporting. Consider following us over there or checking out our five most-recent tweets in the sidebar at right. Here are some of the more popular and interesting links we’ve [...]

As the dust settles on yesterday’s settlement in GateHouse Media v. The New York Times Co., I’ve spoken with a few more experts and key players in 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 [...]

I just got off the phone with Kirk Davis, the newly promoted president and chief operating officer of GateHouse Media, who gave me his interpretation of their settlement with The New York Times Co., owner of The Boston Globe. “We believe the settlement provides GateHouse with all the essential relief on the issues that caused [...]

It’s going to take some time to think through the implications of the settlement (PDF link) announced today between the New York Times Co. and GateHouse Media, over the issue of NYT’s Boston.com site aggregating content from local sites belonging to GateHouse, but my first instinct is that it is almost unrelentingly bad. Why? [...]

Zach’s on the phone with the lawyers right now, but I wanted to add one quick point. Some people, like Dan Kennedy, had hoped for a GateHouse/NYT Co. settlement because they feared what legal precedent would be set by a court dictating what kinds of linking is okay online. And that has been avoided.
But a [...]

The settlement in the GateHouse/NYT Co. case has been posted, and this is one of those moments when it’s clear I am not a lawyer. We’re trying to get clarity from people smarter than us, and we’re discussing it over on Twitter. But here’s a preliminary reading of the settlement language:
GateHouse will implement one or [...]

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 [...]

We’ve been looking at the GateHouse/New 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 articles and blog posts by GateHouse newspapers on a suite of new hyperlocal news sites [...]

We’ve all heard, at one time or another, that we shouldn’t write anything in an email we wouldn’t feel comfortable being discussed in court. It appears some people at the newspaper chain GateHouse are seeing the truth of that wisdom.
As you know, GateHouse is suing to prevent The Boston Globe from linking to stories produced [...]

When The Boston Globe launched a hyperlocal news site for suburban Newton in November, the paper seemed like a late adopter of an already common practice: aggregating articles, blog posts, and other content about Newton from a variety of sources across the web. No big deal.
Instead, the Globe quickly drew a lawsuit from GateHouse [...]