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He kind of mentioned that when he criticized fair use. He puts up a pay wall, one person buys a subscription, blogs about it, and there isn't much he can do.
by scj 17y ago
He kind of mentioned that when he criticized fair use. He puts up a pay wall, one person buys a subscription, blogs about it, and there isn't much he can do. He can't copyright the news after all, only his journalists' expression of it.
- forensic 17y agoThat applies to news but not necessarily to in-depth reporting. Murdoch is right that people will pay for quality. But there are almost zero commercial writing institutions that produce quality.
- MikeCapone 17y ago> But there are almost zero commercial writing institutions that produce quality. I only subscribe to the Economist.
- forensic 17y agoYep that's why I said "almost" I had The Economist in mind :P
- hristov 17y agoThis is not exactly the case. It is true that one cannot copyright facts, but I believe there are some legal doctrines that protect news papers that brake new stories. See International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U.S. 215 (1918). (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_News_Service_v._Associated_Press http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_News_Service_v._A...) So I think if someone just paraphrased a pay site's stories, the pay site would be able to stop them.