List of Gannett publications that cannot be posted to Free Republic per their copyright complaint

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[Jim Robinson]

Received another letter from Gannett Publications, publisher of USAToday, and several other newspapers. Due to contractual arrangements they have with third-party content providers, they have denied our request to allow posting of excerpts. They will only allow the posting of titles and links.

Please do not post full text or even excerpts from the following Gannett Web sites:

GANNETT NEWSPAPERS ON THE WEB:

Alabama
The Montgomery Advertiser

Arizona
The Arizona Republic, Phoenix
Tucson Citizen

Arkansas
The Baxter Bulletin

California
The Desert Sun, Palm Springs
The Salinas Californian
Tulare Advance-Register
Visalia Times-Delta

Colorado
Fort Collins Coloradoan

Connecticut
Norwich Bulletin

Delaware
The News Journal, Wilmington

Florida
FLORIDA TODAY, Brevard County
The News-Press, Fort Myers
Pensacola News Journal

Georgia
The Times, Gainesville

Guam
Pacific Daily News, Hagatna

Hawaii
The Honolulu Advertiser

Idaho
The Idaho Statesman, Boise

Illinois
Rockford Register Star

Indiana
The Indianapolis Star
Journal and Courier, Lafayette
Chronicle-Tribune, Marion
The Star Press, Muncie
Palladium-Item, Richmond

Iowa
The Des Moines Register
Iowa City Press-Citizen

Kentucky
The Courier-Journal, Louisville

Louisiana
The Town Talk, Alexandria
The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette
The News-Star, Monroe
Daily World, Opelousas
The Times, Shreveport

Maryland
The Daily Times, Salisbury

Michigan
Battle Creek Enquirer
The Detroit News
and Free Press
Lansing State Journal
Times Herald, Port Huron

Minnesota
St. Cloud Times

Mississippi
Hattiesburg American
The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson

Missouri
Springfield News-Leader

Montana
Great Falls Tribune

Nevada
Reno Gazette-Journal

New Jersey
Asbury Park Press
Courier News, Bridgewater
Courier-Post, Cherry Hill
Home News Tribune, East Brunswick
Daily Record, Morristown
The Daily Journal, Vineland

New York
Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton
Star-Gazette, Elmira
The Ithaca Journal
Poughkeepsie Journal
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Observer-Dispatch, Utica
The Journal News, Westchester County

North Carolina
Asheville Citizen-Times

Ohio
Newspaper Network of Central Ohio
Telegraph-Forum, Bucyrus
Chillicothe Gazette
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Coshocton Tribune
The News-Messenger, Fremont
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette
News Journal, Mansfield
The Marion Star
The Advocate, Newark
News Herald, Port Clinton
Times Recorder, Zanesville

Oklahoma
Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat

Oregon
Statesman Journal, Salem

Pennsylvania
Public Opinion, Chambersburg
Clipper Magazine, Inc, Mountville

South Carolina
The Greenville News

South Dakota
Argus Leader, Sioux Falls

Tennessee
The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville
Williamson County Review Appeal, Franklin
The Jackson Sun
The Daily News Journal, Murfreesboro
The Tennessean, Nashville

Utah
The Spectrum, St. George

Vermont
The Burlington Free Press

Virginia
The Daily News Leader, Staunton

Washington
The Bellingham Herald
The Olympian, Olympia

West Virginia
The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington

Wisconsin
The Post-Crescent, Appleton
The Reporter, Fond du Lac
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Herald Times Reporter, Manitowoc
Marshfield News-Herald
Oshkosh Northwestern
The Sheboygan Press
Stevens Point Journal
Wausau Daily Herald
The Daily Tribune, Wisconsin Rapids

ARMY TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
Army Times
Armed Forces Journal
Navy Times
Marine Corps Times
Air Force Times
Federal Times
Defense News
Military City

OTHER NEWSPAPER DIVISION WEB SITES
101 Things to Do
Clipper Magazine, Inc.
Gannett Direct Marketing Services
Gannett Media Technologies International
Gannett Offset
Nursing Spectrum
Telematch

USA TODAY
USA TODAY
USA WEEKEND
USA TODAY Sports Weekly

GANNETT U.K. LTD.
Newsquest Media Group

TEXAS-NEW MEXICO NEWSPAPERS PARTNERSHIP
Alamogordo Daily News
Carlsbad Current-Argus
The Deming Headlight
El Paso Times
The Daily Times, Farmington
Las Cruces Sun-News
Silver City Sun-News

CAPTIVATE NETWORK
Captivate Network

UNITED KINGDOM
Bolton Evening News
Daily Echo, Bournemouth
Dorset Echo
Swindon Evening Advertiser
The Argus, Brighton
Basildon/Southend Evening Echo
Colchester Evening Gazette
Evening Press, York
Lancashire Evening Telegraph
The Northern Echo
Oxford Mail
South Wales Argus
Southern Daily Echo
Bradford Telegraph & Argus
Worcester Evening News
The Herald, Scotland
Evening Times, Glasgow
Sunday Herald, Scotland

[mcg1969]

Thanks Jim. Being somewhat new here, is there any facility on this site that automatically scans the publication title to make sure the rules are being followed? It sure would be rather cumbersome for us to scan a list like this every time we post a news article.

[RWR8189]

Jeez, its getting bad.

[ladyinred]

My, my, my.

[Ingtar]

Time to excerpt everything yet?

[Billthedrill]

Rupert Murdoch these guys ain't. I'm sure gonna miss the latest from the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, but the others I guess I can do without.

[lowbridge]

Received another letter from Gannett Publications, publisher of USAToday, and several other newspapers. Due to contractual arrangements they have with third-party content providers, they have denied our request to allow posting of excerpts. They will only allow the posting of titles and links.

I wonder if they sent the same kind of letters to DU, or Bartcop, or smirking chimp, etc.

[ChicagoHebrew]

You might want to make a "sticky" of all the pubs we have to excerpt or just link too. Would be convenient.

[BigSkyFreeper]

The Great Falls Tribune is no big loss. I don't read it, and it's a left winged rag.

[Texasforever]

This is even worse. This is only allowing links. It is strange.

[BigSkyFreeper]

My guess is "no".

[idkfa]

I don't think I've read The Onion since their complaint. The posts here used to remind me to go to their site to read other articles. I wonder how much web traffic these newspapers lose after a complaint. Do they send these letters out to other web pages?

[Tarantulas]

The Arizona Repugnant also leans far to the left. I wonder if the rest of them do too. At least there are no TV or radio stations on there. I know that the same company owns KPNX Channel 12 TV here in Phoenix.

I've been around here for a while, but I never have figured out where the rules are posted. I know there was another prohibited list posted a while back but it seems to have disappeared.

[prisoner6]

SUX...I MEAN SUX!

I'm really getting tired of this silly, nitpicking, short-sighted junk. Do they have a similar policy with say Google, or Drudge or any of the myriad of websites that post news summaries?

I'm still bitchy enough after the Specter primary win to fire a letter off and tell 'em I'll never buy one of their papers again.

OOoooooo.....I'm mad....need...more...coffee...

prisoner6

[AlienCrossfirePlayer]

Seems to me that publishing a link under these circumstances is doing them a favor which they don't deserve.

[FastCoyote]

Well, long term these papers may lose more than Free Republic does in the bargain. I'm sure most of these half ass publications have little to lure readers to their sites anyway. So, by limiting citations to bare links, they have doomed themselves to obscurity.

[Porterville]

What does the 2 liberals freaks in Tulare County have against the Free Republic? Doesn't matter, only thing good about Visalia is the pet store in the mall.

[texasbluebell]

I was just wondering if this applies to everyone or only to the Vast Right Wing FR.

[texasbluebell]

I won't post even one excerpt from one of their stupid papers.

They must not want any hits on their sites anymore.

Fine with me.

But if I see even one LEFT wing site or any neutral site that's getting away with it, I'm going to scream bloody murder.

[Prime Choice]

It would seem that the Clinton war on online conservative news forums was just a prelude.

I don't quite understand the prohibition on excerpts, since that is legally protected under Fair Use, but it sure seems that -- if this nonsense keeps up -- we'll have an easier time keeping a list of sites we CAN use rather than a list of ones we can't.

[texasbluebell]

So just to be clear in my mind:

If we find the story on the web by googling, and use the "cache" link on google, for example, that's ok?

[Mo1]

Only Titles??

[Prime Choice]

Seems to me that publishing a link under these circumstances is doing them a favor which they don't deserve.

I'm inclined to agree with ACP here. Why send them traffic if they think they're "too good" to be excerpted on FR? Just make a wholesale embargo on those domains.

[texasbluebell]

And how does google itself get around this?

Is no one allowed to quote their stupid articles? I'm really getting miffed at this nonsense. Aw, the he!! with 'em all.

[JDoutrider]

This is getting ridiculous!

What are they afraid of?

[texasbluebell]

Embargo 'em all.

You got it.

[Petronski]

No more Mountville Clipper? Say it ain't so, Jim. Say it ain't so.

[John Lenin]

Looks like more foreign sources are in store for the future.

[FairOpinion]

"they have denied our request to allow posting of excerpts. They will only allow the posting of titles and links. "

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Not even excerpts?!

This is beyond ridiculous.

[lewislynn]

only thing good about Visalia is the pet store in the mall.

Visalia has a mall?

[Ingtar]

In this case, can we post a link to the DUmmies after they excerpt it? (just kidding)

[Porterville]

2 malls- the one with the pet store and the one with the Gottschalks

[texasbluebell]

Seems like a legitimate question to me.

What the heck is the internet supposed to be, anyway?

I thought it was all about linking?

Silly me, that only applies in special circumstances.

Not here of course.

[mrbillxx]

It's not like you've got a ton of choices up there...what are you going to read, Bozeman Chronicle?

[lonewacko_dot_com]

I'm pretty sure that short excerpts would be covered under Fair Use. In any case, if you see a story you want to post, go to news.google.com and see if another site has the same story. If you see another site linking to one of these papers, point out that they don't allow excerpts. That might cause fewer people to link to these papers. Send fewer hits there way and they'll probably change their policies.

[weegee]

No excerpting? How about paraphrasing (with accreditation). Certainly it is nothing that other media sites aren't already doing.

Fair use provisions of the US Constitution mean nothing to the left. Remember this the next time someone brings up the "First Ammendment".

[weegee]

I'd say forward any and all leftist excerpts to the legal staff at those websites. Since newbies are not permitted to post at DUh, the articles posted there are from genuine RedDUpes.

[kcvl]

Maybe we should all call any of these local papers and tell them we are either canceling our subscription or boycotting their advertisers if they don't allow posting of an excerpt. I KNOW that would wake up some local business people who advertise with these pukes. You could call me but I have already pulled all my advertising from all papers. I now use direct advertising. It works better anyway.

[weegee]

"The Ithaca Journal" The City Of Evil just became that much more evil today.

[kcvl]

Call their advertisers. That WILL work. They are already having trouble getting people to advertise with them once they figure out that direct advertising is a better and less expensive way to do it. I pulled all of mine from all newspapers when they started trashing President Bush in the last election. And don't forget to tell them why. Business people do care about their customers. Newspapers never really did until they started getting calls to cancel advertising. They always thought that people couldn't get their news from anywhere else so screw you. BIG FAT DO YOU WANT TO BET?!

[HiTech RedNeck]

It's a matter of FR's legal warchest vs. that of Big Liberal Media. Either some eccentric billionaire endows FR to take this clear to the Supreme Court or it will become an emasculated shadow of its old self.

[kcvl]

I SMELL HILLARY CLINTON!

[Amelia]

Are other news commentary sites, such as DU, LP, L.com, etc. having to comply with these same restrictions?

[Behind Liberal Lines]

So we can't post stories from the "paper of record" of "the city of evil" any more.

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Miss Marple]

Well, I guess we will have to trust you to summarize, since I am not going to their links.

This includes the major Indiana paper, the Indianapolis Star, which means I will have to summarize stories on the Mitch Daniels campaign. Bah!

[mombonn]

Well, I just visited the Battle Creek Enquirer website for the last time. It's a rag that I quit paying to read a long time ago.

I will no longer give them a click, either.

Ironically, I posted an article from them a couple of days ago - just a sweet local-interest piece about some kids visiting Air Force One.

[kcvl]

PLEASE, everyone call the advertisers! They will listen.

[BSunday]

USA TODAY

I'm hoping that one isn't too big of a surprise for my fellow Freepers.

[an amused spectator]

I emailed a large Midwest newspaper about a particular Left-wing website which posts full-text articles from their rag. I pointed out that their copyright policy (which of course they have fully enforced against us) forbade such activity, and provided 3 specific links from within the last month.

The upper level contact emailed me back that preventing such activity was very difficult, and would probably take almost a year to correct.

His email was clearly a lie.

I say we start Freeping the Net to shut down ANY other site which engages in activity which is forbidden here. Let's see the media liars go up against their own illegitimate spawn.

[an amused spectator]

Are other news commentary sites, such as DU, LP, L.com, etc. having to comply with these same restrictions?

I'm not sure about those sewers, but I do know of one Lefty site that posts full-text, with no repercussions.