Must be for YOU, readers (and me, too)!!!!
"GateHouse sues Globe's parent over websites" by Todd Wallack, Globe Staff | December 23, 2008
GateHouse Media Inc., the owner of 125 local newspapers across Massachusetts, sued The Boston Globe's parent company yesterday for linking to GateHouse articles on the Globe's new local websites.
In a lawsuit filed in US District Court in Massachusetts, GateHouse argued that The New York Times Co. violated copyright law by copying "verbatim" headlines and the first sentences from articles in the Newton Tab, Daily News Tribune of Waltham, and other GateHouse papers on the Globe's own websites, along with links to the full articles.
The suit raises critical legal issues about what type of linking is permitted on the Internet. Many blogs and media sites routinely post links to stories by other media. Indeed, GateHouse has published links to Globe stories in the past.
And Google Inc., the Internet powerhouse, scours thousands of news sites around the world for headlines and posts links to the stories. In a statement, Times Co. spokeswoman Catherine Mathis said that the company is simply doing what many other news sites already do - aggregating headlines and snippets of relevant stories published elsewhere on the Web - and that it believed GateHouse's lawsuit was without merit.
"Far from being illegal or improper, this practice of linking to sites is common and is familiar to anyone who has searched the Web," Mathis said. "It is fair and benefits both Web users and the originating site."
That is RIGHT!! For ONCE I AGREE with the MSM!!!!!!
PIGS must be able to FLY!!!
GateHouse representatives could not immediately be reached for comment....
You can go see them fight it out here
Again, I don't know why I bother:
NEW YORK - The New York Times admitted yesterday it published a fake letter.... --more--"
How could anyone tell the difference from their normal product of agenda-pushing garbage?
