Sunday, January 25, 2009

One to watch: GateHouse Media v. New York Times Co.

This is an interesting court case. GateHouse Media, a publisher of community newspapers, has sued the New York Times Co. and its subsidiary Boston.com for using Gatehouse copyrighted material in its news aggregator site (details are here).  The suit has enormous implications, if Gatehouse wins, since much of the material on sites competing with print publication is similar news aggregation. For example, that's what this site does. I don't create much news; I merely link to others' work.

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