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7-2-2009 3:37 PM
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Gawker’s Hamilton Nolan:

No linking or paraphrasing?

Let's Screw Up the Entire Internet to Save Newspapers!

You can copyright a news story, but you can't copyright the news. "The news" just means "things that happen in the world." What would it mean, in practice, to make it illegal to paraphrase a copyrighted news story? Summing up, for example, political events, or a sports controversy, or even a fashion trend, could be interpreted as paraphrasing copyrighted material. So let's ban talking about anything. And banning links will help us make our references even more obscure, by making it impossible for anyone to refer to source materials! Good idea, Posner.
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7-2-2009 4:57 PM
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The death throes of a dying media...
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