Murdoch's The Times Accused Of Blatant Copying
Found on Techdirt on Thursday, 19 November 2009
As pointed out by Mathew Ingram, just days after making the case for paying for news, The Times has been accused of publishing an article that it copied without permission from a blog.
Yes, just as Rupert Murdoch is calling aggregators (sites that simply summarize and link to stories) parasites (even as he owns a bunch of aggregators himself), one of his papers didn't aggregate, it flat out copied, without permission, a blog post that was written by Edgar Wright as a tribute to Edward Woodward, who recently passed away.
Old Rupert has absolutely no idea how much these "parasites" contribute to his income. If he really wants to hide all his sites behind a login, I don't really care. It's not like he has a monopoly for delivering news.