> But as a thought experiment, if you were a lawyer tasked to argue this was publicly good, what could you even say? The primary economic value of many news ar

> But as a thought experiment, if you were a lawyer tasked to argue this was publicly good, what could you even say? The primary economic value of many news articles is provided by timeliness and one or two key facts, even if they appear in a longer piece. By including a copy of those facts adjacent to the article link, the linking party is taking that value without actually doing the work of journalism. Copyright is a mechanism that is already in place to deal with undesirable distribution of an author's work, so the simple solution is to extend its protection to even tiny parts of journalistic writing.