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Linking: Scraping vs. Copyright

January 6, 2013 – 11:46 pm

Tweet  Irish newspapers created quite a stir when they demanded a fee for incoming links to their content. Actually, this is a mere prelude to a much more crucial debate on copyrights,  robotic scraping and subsequent synthetic content re-creation from scraps.  The controversy erupted on December 30th, when an attorney from the Irish law firm [...]

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Gunning for the Copyright Reformers

August 14, 2011 – 8:36 pm

TweetGoing after copyright reformers is risky business. To digital zealots, defending copyright is like advocating the return to the typewriter. (I personally like typewriters; I own several and I recommend a wonderful 1997 Atlantic piece on them at Longform.org). Going after sworn copyright opponents is what Robert Levine does in his just-published  book Free Ride [...]

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Fighting Unlicensed Content With Algorithms

November 22, 2010 – 8:51 am

TweetIt’s high time to fight the theft of news-related contents, really. A couple of weeks ago, Attributor, a US company, released the conclusions of a five-month study covering the use of unauthorized contents on the internet. The project was called Graduated Response Trial for News and relied on one strong core idea: once a significant [...]

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