Posted on 02/15/2005 12:50:55 PM PST by Stoat
i went on a field trip with my son's boy scout troop to the Tulsa World. Walking through the news department, I was almost unable to restrain myself from a verbal outburst.
Then the tour guide pointed out a hugh roll of unprinted newspaper...I mean, a gigantic roll of paper. He laughed and said "It looks like a big roll of toilet paper, doesn't it?"
Oh my lands, it was all I could do not to blurt out that it looks like toilet paper to me when it's in the newsstand!
unless you get a liberal judge...
Were this the NYT or the Boston Globe, you definately don't want their Judges. And Their Judges is what they are too. These two papers got a SCJ on the bench!
Sound like you have a paper like these. Must really suck to get cut down to size!!! Keep up the good work!
The Tulsa World is another example of lefty boomers taking over and destroying an institions (universities and media are the favorite targets).
The World was a conservative paper in a conservative town until the 1990's. It has currently evolved into a hopelessly biased liberal rag. Yet the vast majority of its subscribers and readers are red blooded conservatives. Go figure.
I hope the Bates blog hounds the World relentlessly. Power to the people.
I took the daughter of the publisher for the Tulsa Tribune to my senior prom. So I take Tulsa World dirty tricks personally, seeing how the screwed the Tribune, a fine newspaper, out of existence.
reproducing content is one thing. copyright law is pretty clear on it, irrespective of "fair usage" of excerpts
linking is quite another matter. on this issue, the Whirled has no leg to stand on. I used to be involved freelance with a large multinational firm as part of their RM and B&RC division, doing web-copping. I know from experience and for a fact that the Whirled will lose on the links. Period.
While everyone gets up in arms about the paper's demand to cease linking -- which is obviously goofy -- it's worth noting that the paper is also accusing the blogger of reproducing its material ("in whole or in part").
If you haven't yourself seen the material in question, then you're simply rushing to judgment in assuming the blogger is right and the paper is wrong. I know I haven't seen the material in question, so I have no basis on which to form an opinion.
I do know, though, that if the blogger was indeed reproducing entire Tulsa World articles, or reproducing them to an extent unprotected by a fair-use claim, then he is guilty of copyright infringement.
I realize there are many Free Republic users who believe there's nothing wrong with republishing copyrighted content in its entirety. That's quite clear. But if a content owner wishes to protect his copyright, it's certainly his legal and moral right to do so. The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, obviously, are among those who have sought to defend their copyrights here. Others, obviously, have not. Intellectual property infringement is (typically) a civil and not criminal matter. Pursuing a claim is entirely the prerogative of a copyright holder.
Tulsa World may very well be engaged in its own legally and morally defensible protection of its copyrights. Until we know the extent of the blogger's reproduction -- or if there was reproduction at all -- then it seems wise to withhold judgment.
Thanks for all of your work Michael D. Bates.
You, me and everyone else with more than a room-temperature I.Q., schweetie... ;-)
BTTT!!!!!!
Sent a message to the daily oklahoman with the url. Always nice to know when the competition is making and
A-$$ of themselves. :-)
I have a bias...and a basis to form an opinion. The Tulsa Squirrel is one of the most Socialist Leftist Marxist Good 'Ol Boy Democrat fish wraps in the whole country..!!
And it doesn't surprise me one bit...that they would try and bully silence someone from criticizing their cozy little operation in the city of Tulsa.
FWIW-
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