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Irish Newspaper Collective Wants to Charge License Fees for Links
- jpatokal 14y ago"Recap: The Newspapers’ agent demanded an annual payment from a women’s domestic violence charity because they said they owned copyright in a link to the newspapers’ public website." http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2012/12/30/2012-the-year-irish-newspapers-tried-to-destroy-the-web/ http://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2012/12/30/2012-the-year-iris...
- lutusp 14y agoApparently they haven't heard about "fair use", which allows much more than a simple link. Substantial quotation is permitted in connection with an editorial comment, analysis, satire, and other uses. Fair use goes way beyond a simple link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use