Maybe I just missed it? Or... it was accidentally deleted in editing the article.
Yeah, that must be it.
Posted on 05/16/2009 7:17:02 AM PDT by La Lydia
...Here are a few things Congress can do:
Bring copyright laws into the age of the search engine. Taking a portion of a copyrighted work can be protected under the "fair use" doctrine. But the kind of fair use in news reports, academics -- republishing a quote to comment on it, for example -- is not what search engines practice...
Publishers should not have to choose between protecting their copyrights and shunning the search-engine databases that map the Internet. Journalism therefore needs a bright line imposed by statute: that the taking of entire Web pages by search engines, which is what powers their search functions, is not fair use but infringement...Such a rule...would force them to negotiate with copyright holders over the value of their content.
Federalize the "hot news" doctrine. This doctrine protects against types of poaching that copyright might not cover -- the stealing of information not by direct copying but simply by taking the guts of the content. While the Internet has made news vulnerable to pilfering because of the ease of linking from one site to the next...
Now that many news aggregator sites have taken "linksploitation" to a commercial level by selling ads wrapped around the links they post, Congress has the incentive it needs to pass a federal law protecting hot news. Such a law would give publishers an additional source of legal leverage...
Use tax policy to promote the press. Washington state is taking a lead in the current crisis with legislation signed into law this week to slash business taxes on the press by 40 percent. Congress could provide incentives for placing ads with content creators (not with Craigslist) and allowances for immediate write-offs (rather than capitalization) for all expenses related to news production....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
What would save Journalism is for journalists to begin practicing true reporting again, and not turning themselves into propagandists for the leftist way of thinking.
If a media outlet is offering itself to the public as a source of information; and if the customers discover that source is always going to be tainted, then they are going to go elsewhere for their news.
I do not live near Washington and so do not buy the Washington Post. The WP loses nothing if I read its articles online. If it wants, let it insist that the ads it sells be included with any reproduction of its articles. That way it gains and the reader who wants to read its articles won’t lose.
If it does not prove itself to be a trustworthy source of info, then its readership won’t expand and its advertising base will decrease. Or the reverse might happen.
Let the customer decide on the basis of the quality of the product if he wants to accept news from the WP or not.
But don’t make the taxpayer subsidize it.
I’m not so sure more laws are needed to save journalism. The fundamental problem is deterioration of journalistic standards and extreme bias in reportage. Journalism needs to be saved from itself.
If you don't want your crap picked up by search engines, don't post it in the internet, Einstein.
Federalize the "hot news" doctrine. This doctrine protects against types of poaching that copyright might not cover -- the stealing of information not by direct copying but simply by taking the guts of the content. While the Internet has made news vulnerable to pilfering because of the ease of linking from one site to the next...
What the hell is "hot news," you dingbat? Whatever The Washington Post prints?
Good Lord, the stupidity of liberals is as vast as imagination itself.
“Federalize the “hot news” doctrine. This doctrine protects against types of poaching that copyright might not cover — the stealing of information not by direct copying but simply by taking the guts of the content. While the Internet has made news vulnerable to pilfering because of the ease of linking from one site to the next...”
IOW, prevent free and unfettered discussion of news, because under this law you could not even DISCUSS what you just read or report the contents to anyone else. Since when is news “vulnerable to pilfering”???
These people have killed themselves and are blaming it on us for not wanting to read their trash.
Ignorance is the most expensive thing we face.....Rush
Journalism died along time ago. What Congress will try to save is the DOP (Department of Propaganda).
Exactly!
Well written political books, on the left and the right, are selling well.
People CRAVE information right now, with everything that is going on.
However, people have rejected the lazy, biased, clueless print media, with only a few exceptions.
How about starting by digging up the school transcripts and passport records of our current commander in chief? How hard would that be?
They've waded through every trash bin in America digging up dirt on GWB and what are they doing now that he's not president? Their digging through every trash bin in America trying to dig up dirt on GWB.
Translation:
We want the glory of our news stories reported, but we want someone to pay us for finding that glory.
We want taxes reduced on newspapers, but we are OK with taxes increased on everybody else.
Maybe I just missed it? Or... it was accidentally deleted in editing the article.
Yeah, that must be it.
Bingo we have a winner!
The problem with Journalism is Journalism schools (propaganda institutions) and the AP (Always Propaganda).
Somewhere we have forgotten that the pursuit of the Truth is what publishing should be about.
When we stop pursuing the Truth we are dead as a Nation.
In the newspaper industry, "hot news" is anything that is anti-conservative and which therefore needs to be conspicuously placed in large bold type above the fold.
Can't happen ... it's ingrained into their thought process. It starts with a liberal proclivity that leads them to journalism, it's reinforced by a steady unrelenting dose of liberalism foisted on them by journalism professors in college & again reinforced when they emerge into the working world of journalism. Almost without exception their colleagues & friends in journalism are liberals ... to change and become anything else is impossible.
This is like using your hand to hold back a tidal wave.
None of these ideas is possible at all and will only serve as irritations and clubs for the liberals to use selectively.
Even though we have repeatedly reported that there is no link between tax cuts and economic prosperity.
So they want special privileges for their interest group, how about if they burn it all to the ground and start over with people that know how to craft a functional business model with the internet.
So seeing that I'm just an uneducated conservative rube, my obeservation that people in Britain and the US of A have access to the exact same search engines probably won't count much for those in the newspaper set.
Taxes are a percentage of income, so this doesn't help the dying papers.
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