Judge Thinks Linking To Copyrighted Material Should Be Illegal 390
An article at TechCrunch discusses a blog post from Richard Posner, a US Court of Appeals judge, about the struggling newspaper industry. Posner explains why he thinks the newspapers will continue to struggle, and then comes to a rather unusual conclusion: "Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion."
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New at this, aren't we?
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No more bibiliographies (Score:3, Funny)
Nah (Score:4, Funny)
Hey, have you been sleeping under some rock? We don't RTFAs in this part of the internet. The editors only have to insert a few phony "links" in the story to www.foo.bar
"Slashdot effect" would have to be reinterpreted as "a bunch of people arguing about something without bothering to know the story" though, but around here we take pride in doing that.
Now I will have to ask you to get off my fucking lawn.
Obligatory link to copyrighted content (Score:5, Funny)
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Why do you think China is kicking our asses so hard?
*Sigh*. China is not "kicking our asses". China is cooperating extensively with us by making lots of things for us more efficiently than we can, and both buying lots of things from us that we can make (or do) more efficiently than they can, and investing in our economy.
It's not a competition, and it's much closer to a $1,000,000,000,000-sum game than to a zero-sum game. Go read Paul Krugman.
Re:Posner (Score:3, Funny)
Imagine someone cloned slashdot. Someone who can do CSS properly.