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To: Jim Robinson

YUP. The non-partisan, unbiased press... the ones that will review any left-wing book but refuses to review a book by Sean Hannity.. is worried about their articles being read.

I know there are liberal groups sending them e-mails and letters. It will be interesting to see if DU and other websites are allowed to post their articles.

13 posted on 04/08/2004 9:25:03 PM PDT by GeronL (Hey, I am on the internet. I have a right (cough, cough) to write stupid things.)

***I know there are liberal groups sending them e-mails and letters. It will be interesting to see if DU and other websites are allowed to post their articles.***

Absolutely, we may have to UGH review the lib sites to see.

38 posted on 04/08/2004 9:36:16 PM PDT by kitkat

I would be surprised if others are allowed to copy these articles. Websites still measure click-throughs as a basis for selling advertising, and lots of news media that post current articles for free charge for archival access.

Free Republic posters who do not excerpt (and I rarely, if ever, have excerpted articles in the past) may be depriving these news media of potential revenue.

Of course, there is another side; I have found many news sources that I regularly visit because I saw their articles posted on FR.

122 posted on 04/08/2004 10:20:21 PM PDT by Piranha

It will be interesting to see if DU and other websites are allowed to post their articles.

The DU and most other news sites require excerpting of all material. The Liberty ComPost doesn't require excerpting, but I think all of two people in an Arkansas trailer park read that forum.

190 posted on 04/08/2004 10:41:09 PM PDT by ambrose ("I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it" - John F. al-Query)

I know there are liberal groups sending them e-mails and letters. It will be interesting to see if DU and other websites are allowed to post their articles.

DU largely excerpts articles but there are occasions where full articles are reprinted; I doubt that special permission was requested/granted as there is no mention of it in those threads.

Also Bill Gates' Corbis harassed FR for linking to the photos of John Kerry seated near Jane Fonda (I am referring to the genuine color photo). They also bitched about the hoaxed photo composite parody made from 2 separate Corbis images.

The double standard is that leftist site Snopes.com hosted and continues to host all 4 images (the three Corbis images and the unapproved hoax image) on their own server. I even notified Corbis about this. I assume that Corbis contacted Snopes because the Snopes site was modified to acknowledge Corbis' copyright on the 3 images (although Corbis holds no such copyright on the hoaxed image and would be suspected to be unwilling to license such an image especially in light of the fact that they cannot license a composite that they did not create and therefore do not own). I also seriously doubt that Snopes is paying $150 an image like the Vietnam Veterans Against Kerry did to host the image on their site.

The media is coming down hard on conservatives and leaving a highly suspect double standard in treatment in their wake.

279 posted on 04/09/2004 2:10:52 AM PDT by weegee (Maybe Urban Outfitters should sell t-shirts that say "Voting Democrat is for Old Dead People.")

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