Righthaven, the best defender of fair use ever.

RIghthaven, the best defender of fair use ever.

Sgt Rock

I don't think they are ignoring copyright infringement but rather see the benefit of people linking to them and not alienating their customers and advertisers. I don't think the vast majority of newspapers care if people take some of the content as long as they link back.

When a small time newspaper can command a worldwide audience because of other blogs and sites link to them, create a buzz and go viral and become part of a worldwide discussion is not viewed as a bad thing.

I think there are newspapers listening to their SEO and marketing people and others like the LVRJ who are only listening to their lawyers.

Botx

Fair use mainly deals with what can be done with copyrighted works without permission so any TOS is irrelevant to fair use because, by definition, terms of service is a type of permission.

StRock

Sherman Frederick violated Stephens Media's own terms of service on this article by not properly citing the source of the articles he mentions from gametimeIP.com.

Stephens Media TOS states:

"Stephens Media welcomes hypertext links to its electronically-published textual content. The appropriate method for linking to Stephens Media content is to post only the headline and the first paragraph of a story and then a link to the original textual material."

This was some sloppy journalism by Sherman Frederick. No wonder he is no longer editor.

StgRock

I am glad you at least admitted that he did not cite the sources correctly and as I mentioned myself I would say Frederick is within fair use but it is still hypocritical for him to be doing any cut and pasting while at the same time calling others thieves.

I agree myself that cutting and pasting an entire article should not be done because you can get the important part of a story in just a short snippet but many do not believe in fair use at all or have it so narrowly defined as to render it meaningless.

Dave Butcher

Apparently only former RJ editors are allowed to post portions of other people's content.

I too would not even use the RJ to line a bird-cage, I mourn for the trees that are used to print it.

And another...

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&h...

Her is another example...

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&h...

Sgt Rock

Click on this google search and it will give you a good example and prove my point. The search gives you both the gametimeIP post and Fredericks post and you will see he lifted the portions word for word.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&h...