[FreeReign]

If they post the entire content, no complaint. If they post an excerpt, hoping to lure the reader to the blog to read the rest, they’re using FR for advertisement.

I've been try to understand this to (and BTW I'm not a blogger).

Let me see if I have this right. CNN, WaPo and all the rest of the propagandists should have their stuff excerpted and bloggers shouldn't??

[Billthedrill]

They’ve formally requested it. Any blogger can do the same. That said, nobody at WaPo or CNN posts their stuff here to lure readers. Other people do.

[logi_cal869]

Well-stated.

[TheZMan]

One is freelance thought - no different than a post directly on FR.

The other is a paid gig, and property of that source (regardless of whether we like them or not).

I don’t want to pay for open-source software, but I will pay for a commercial product.

Same deal.

[trebb]

Let me see if I have this right. CNN, WaPo and all the rest of the propagandists should have their stuff excerpted and bloggers shouldn't??

Let me get this straight - the places that restrict others to excerpts vs. whole stories cannot decide to let themselves "break the rule" because they are the poster?

If a blogger insists his stuff will be excerpted, it applies to others who want to share it, not to the blogger who owns the data.