GateHouse Media vs NYTimes
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That’s the bottom-line question in a lawsuit with community newspaper publisher GateHouse Media and the New York Times Co, parent of the Boston Globe and its Boston.com Web site, as the protagonists.
“GateHouse filed a copyright infringement lawsuit last month, claiming that the Globe’s new community Web sites use online material from GateHouse without permission,” Says the Associated Press, going on:
“GateHouse claims Boston.com violates copyright and trademark laws by taking GateHouse’s newspaper headlines and lead sentences published on its ‘Wicked Local’ Web sites. GateHouse alleges that Boston.com offers links that send readers directly to ‘Wicked Local” stories – bypassing ads posted on home pages that help fund its operation and creating confusion on the source of the original reporting.”
Gregory Reibman, editor-in-chief of the metro unit of GateHouse Media New England, “said in an affidavit that many online readers only read headlines and lead sentences and do not click through to the full stories,” says the story, adding:
“If the Boston Globe wants to compete with us in Newton and the other communities we serve, they should approach it fairly,
“They should hire and pay their own journalists. They should generate their own original content and nurture their own contacts within the community.”
Associated Press – GateHouse Media case against NYTimes goes to trial, January 25, 2009
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January 26th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Does this mean I’m fired?
January 26th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Yup. Hand in your hard-hat and steel-capped boots on your way out the door.
heh
Cheers