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How can one reasonably argue that a URL is "news"? This has definitely not held in other countries.
by kevingadd 6y ago
How can one reasonably argue that a URL is "news"? This has definitely not held in other countries.
- paxys 6y agoWhat if I (a user) post the URL, title and first few lines of an article to my Facebook feed? That qualifies as covered news content under any interpretation. Or what if the URL itself contains the full title (like it does in a lot of cases)?
- kevingadd 6y agoYou as the user manually pasting the content in is tangibly different from an automated system doing it, which is what we have now. Whether the courts would hold them liable to pay for your personal actions is a separate question. It is currently the case that individuals can violate copyright by reposting someone else's content unattributed, and when that happens there are existing processes for dealing with it. If the URL has the title in it, that means the news site put that information in the URL to share it. Should I be able to charge money for my phone number because it happens to spell out a word? Again, maybe a court would hold that both are true, but it's absolutely a different thing from scripts automatically scraping and reposting content.