[Utilizer]

Excerpts are acceptable when they point to a valid news source, that way the original site can still garner the hits it needs by presenting the original article in the first place.

Not when someone is excerpting their own material. Then THEY are the only ones who would object to not having their original material posted here.

If they would not want their material posted here, then why are they posting excerpts from it?

[humblegunner]

Why.. we might as well start paying people for vanity threads.
It’s the New Media.

[Political Junkie Too]

May I ask, what is the difference between a NYT or WaPo not wanting their own original content posted here, and an individual entrepreneur not wanting his own original content posted here?

Is it only that the NYT is a deep pocket and can fight it? Is it that the NYT is "for profit" pay-per-view and the entrepreneur has not quite reached that status yet? Is there some other distinction between the so-called majors and minors that the majors get a pass on posting content but the minors do not?

What am I missing that the rules are different for the small guy?

-PJ