All entries tagged: intellectual property
NYT Co.’s top lawyer doubts that aggregation is a copyright issue
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 [...]
Fair Syndication Consortium: News orgs’ new way to confront Google?
Remember? Two months ago, Associated Press chairman Dean Singleton said his organization would take a firm stand against unlicensed use of its content and that of its members. “We are mad as hell,” he declared at the AP’s annual meeting in San Diego, “and we’re not going to take it any more.”
Singleton is a newspaper [...]
NYT threatens news aggregator over use of logo; Newser’s reply: “I’ll put a skull and crossbones in its place”
Is this a new salvo in the Battle of News Aggregation? Michael Wolff, the founder of Newser, says he received a legal threat from The New York Times Company “about two weeks ago” over use of the Times’ logo on his popular news aggregator. In a blistering blog post this morning, Wolff said the Times [...]








