This 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 s

This 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.