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| Notice: GeekPress is back up and running, thanks to Paul! It's still a not-so-serious tech news blog, but the format is significantly looser. Diana, having given up programming for philosophy, has her own philosophical blog NoodleFood. More of her work can be found at DianaHsieh.com. |
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| 10:35:43 am mst / 28 December 2000 found by diana / filed in internet / source Wired 53 hits / 2 comments / 2 e-mails |
| Some newspapers are enlisting the services iCopyright in order to to charge money (like $50) for links to their news stories. More than that, the iCopyright agreement prevents linkers from saying anything derogatory about "the author, the publication from which the content came, or any person connected with the creation of the content or depicted in the content." |
| I'm just flabergasted. This whole scheme is so much more insane than what I could indicate in the summary. |
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| Astoundingly bad by paul 10:48:05 am mst / 28 December 2000 / # 1 |
| The most astounding part was the ban on criticizing someone "depicted" in the article. As Declan pointed out, this means that if one linked to an article about George Bush or Al Gore, one couldn't then write anything critical about either one. I don't think the newspapers fully understood what they were asking for, and I expect they'll issue some hasty "clarification" once this receives more publicity. |
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| - and somewhat out of control by T_Rex_212 11:59:08 am mst / 29 December 2000 / # 2 / reply to # 1 |
| What Paul fails to notice, or at least fails to mention, is that this is not the paper's policy and they cannot alter (or clarify) it at will. This is the policy of iCopyright. The only easy way to fix this is to flush iCopyright - and the sooner the better. I just hope the paper (and iCopyright's other customers) didn't sign a contract they can't break. |
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