p2pnet - rss feed: Belgian newspapers chase Yahoo
p2pnet.net News:- Agence France-Presse is suing Google for $17.5 million and an order barring it from displaying copyrighted AFP pix, stories and headlines without permission. And because Microsoft didn’t want the same problem, it agreed to yank all links to cached and non-cached articles from the French and German-language Belgian newspapers from its Live Search engine and the news engine Newsbot.
Now it’s Yahoo’s turn.
Certain Belgian newspapers belonging to Copiepresse are demanding that it removes search links to their archived stories on alleged copyright infringement grounds, says Associated Press.
The publications say cached links offered free access to archived articles normally sold through subscriptions.
“In a statement, Yahoo! France insisted it ‘respects the copyright of content owners’ and said it would ‘respond in an appropriate manner’ to the complaint,” says the story.
Also See:
yank all links - Microsoft caves to Copiepresse, October 23, 2006
Associated Press - Belgian Papers Ask Yahoo to Remove Links , January 19, 2007
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January 20th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
To show Copiepresse where their place is.
Just tried to search Google News for a story from AFP, found the stories with the same title from other sources.
January 21st, 2007 at 8:57 pm
I agree with this sentiment shown by the above poster. The old guard is trying to turf protect yet at the same time receive benefits. They want the money for the pictures and articles but don’t want the info out there to be had without payment.
Give them what they want. Remove every trace of referral to them from the total hosting. Make certain that those items aren’t hosted and no reference to their location, including offices by the Copiepresse themselves are shown on the net. Grant them the obscurity they wish and never ever refer to them again as even existing.
Once they figure out that a good part of their income came from internet readers they may figure out it wasn’t such a good idea. The way these sorts of tactics are eliminated is to hit them in their back pocket. I certainly won’t be showing up at their site following some link.
Surveys in the past have in indicated that traditional media is losing both its readership and subscription base across the board as folks are going to the net for more unbiased, less commercial, and better news. Ad agencies are following right along where the numbers go to get their ads seen. That means less and less advertising money is coming into traditional media while more is going towards the internet. Copiepresse is trying to stake out their territory on the hopes that if it can’t be gotten elsewhere, that the curious and faithful will buy what can be had anywhere else for free.
Since this is about choice, my choice is not to pay them, not to visit them, not to need their services. I think this will be the majority of internet users choice also, leaving behind the Copiepresse in a vacuum created by those not wanting to see their stuff. I don’t know if it has occurred to others but it is very common that I disable pictures to news articles to begin with. I don’t like the spying that goes on with the linking of the pictures. As such, their grounds for complaint will have very little affect if I could find any at all.