BusinessSpectator sued for plagiarism
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- As publishers become, “increasingly alarmed about the appropriation of their content by online businesses,” Fairfax Business Media has accused website BusinessSpectator.com.au of plagiarism for publishing abstracts of The Australian Financial Review, says The Australian.
“People have websites that are based on rewriting AFR copy,” the story has Fairfax Business Media publisher Michael Gill stating. “(Business Spectator) is the one I’m noticing. They … use the abstracts to populate the site with what appears to be a lot of content. My understanding is they abstract every single story (from the AFR). Their model for the world is to plagiarise things.”
Business Spectator is owned by Australian Independent Business Media and, “Those abstracts are a tiny, tiny, tiny proportion of our content and traffic, probably less than 2 per cent, and if we didn’t have it no one would notice, including us,” states shareholder and ex-Sydney Morning Herald editor of The Eric Beecher.
“It is not part of our business or editorial model. We’re not exploiting this at all.”
Meanwhile, “A main provider of abstracts in Australia is LexisNexis, which produces a daily round-up of the newspapers in its ABIX service,” says The Australian, adding:
“Its website promises subscribers “simple one paragraph summaries of today’s news information” to enable them to stay abreast of key issues “without having to read through the full text”.
“Fairfax is suing LexisNexis in the Federal Court for breach of copyright for reproducing its headlines and bylines. A judgment is pending.”
The Australian – Fairfax accuses website of plagiarism, August 24, 2009
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August 24th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I wonder if Big media like CNN will be sued as well?
See:
And Another One: CNN Found ‘Ripping Off’ Others’ Reporting
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090823/1712315969.shtml