Blogging and Englishman in New York09 Mar 2006 08:30 am
Any commercial republication of U.S.News & World Report content, any production of multiple photocopies of U.S. News content, and any linking to U.S. News content are prohibited unless you obtain U.S. News’s prior consent to such republication or photocopying.
They can’t be serious can they?
Did you ask permission for that?
What if I link to your link? Is that prohibited too?
Poor little guys… “copyright” by definition applies to something COPIED. Referencing a source is no more equivalent to copying it than citing a legal precedent is to enacting the statute.
There seems a paranoia at work here, allied to a Luddite tendency to pull down anything these doltish MSM types think competes with their sterling, effervescent product… regardless of corporate distribution features, MSM “original journalism” is a cottage industry about to encounter mass-produced opinions of the blogosphere’s Dark Satanic Mills.
Sure we’ll “link” to US News, as US News cheerfully does to any number of other sources– without attribution, parasitizing
ideas and opinions from self-important editorials to its wretched partisan feature articles. What is US News afraid of– that linking to such a publication might lead to doubting its (ahem) veracity? Or would this entity prefer that we eschew “linkage” and just macerate its so-called coverage in the same ways it does that of everybody else?
US News? Never heard of it.
Absurd. Absolutely no way can a mere link be a violation of their copyright … you’re not copying any content or even making use of the content beyond merely pointing it out …
Even the limited use of content (a sentence or small paragraph depending on the size of the article) is allowed under copyright law as I understand it.
It is funny though, especially when inbound links only increase the ranking of a website. 99 per cent of the Web is bending over backwards to attract inbound links and US News is doing everything to avoid it.
I wonder if any other MSM web publications have a no linking policy?
I useto get the US News in the 70’s growing up and enjoyed its conservative bent (as I saw it). But recently I tried it again and had to drop it because of the Liberalism in it now.
Lou Dobbs was what set it over the hill. His ranting on imigration usually has no basis in truth especially when he talked about H1 visas.
Linking prohibited? They might as well prohibit unauthorized bibliographical citations.
What’s funny is that I read about this about 5 years ago, and the periodicals suffered a great deal of online mockery for their arrogant foolishness.
Pity that few of us will ever have the opportunity to humiliate these stuffed suits in person.