The FTC wants your freedom, Google protests

[fishdbaz]

http://www.nytimes.com/external/gig...tc-enforcing-hot-news-would-create-40240.html

"-Chavez said the company strongly disagrees with many of the recommendations in the FTC draft paper, including the suggestion that the government should enact a “hot news doctrine” — that is, legislation that would prevent others from reporting the same facts as a traditional publisher for a period of time after a news event. In effect, this would alter the principles of fair use under existing copyright law."

First of all, this is the dumbest idea I've ever heard. Secondly, wouldn't this render most of the lounge illegal?

 

[15357]

I understand copy-pasting entire news articles (which, by the way, violates existing copyright laws), but this is stupid.

 

[ríomhaire]

On the main page the name shows up as

"The FTC wants your freedom,..."

For some reason my brain automatically finished it off as


"The FTC wants your freedom, your clothes and your motorcycle."

 

[VirusType2]

Secondly, wouldn't this render most of the lounge illegal?

I haven't read over this yet, but no, because we're not reporters.

the suggestion that the government should enact a “hot news doctrine” — that is, legislation that would prevent others from reporting the same facts as a traditional publisher for a period of time after a news event.

So, this wouldn't include blogs and forums and shit, it's for formal news agencies, I believe. And I think it's applying to cut and paste: posting something verbatim and crediting the news agency where the article was grabbed from would be stopped. Frankly, the shit is annoying, though I only noticed it for the first time the other day.

 

[fishdbaz]

Well, it says that the hot news doctrine is to prevent others from reporting the same facts as a traditional publisher not that it's to prevent them from presenting the same facts with the same wording (also it doesn't specifically mention news agencies as opposed to anyone including blogs and forums). Really though, you're probably (hopefully) right; it would be rather unreasonable otherwise.

 

[Warped]

This is just one more step into turning the Internet into a completely controlled institution

 

[Stigmata]

FOX: "50 killed in Afghanistan car bombing"

CNN: "51 killed in Afghanistan car bombing"

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Its an attack on sites like drudgereport.com that link to online material. They want to tax digital news media and redistribute that money to traditional media such as newspaper companies, etc. Completely wrong and against the first amendment