Just like making money from software requires every product have an artificial scarcity feature, so too does making money from journalism. It makes sense that j

Just like making money from software requires every product have an artificial scarcity feature, so too does making money from journalism. It makes sense that journalism-for-profit businesses would want control over not only their own stories and content, but some degree of control over what other's say, as well. It's not clear what leverage they would use, apart from attacking "fair use" doctrine. AFAIK if you learn something from the NY Times, you're allowed to tell others about it, and talk about the event. (right?) But haven't you also economically harmed the NY Times because in your tweet noting some fact you learned from the NYT, say, you've provided most of the value of the NYT (a factual report) to your audience for free? This presents the interesting problem of "copy-writed facts", which would be a terrifying world to live in!