Comments on: News Conglomerate Makes All of Its News “Free”

By: Kurz + Knapp am Montag, medienrauschen, das Medienweblog

Kurz + Knapp am Montag, medienrauschen, das Medienweblog — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:31:43 +0000

[...] +++ GateHouse Media, ein Verbund von 75 täglich und über 200 wöchentlich erscheindenden Zeitungen in den USA hat beschlossen, die Inhalte seiner Zeitungen unter eine “Creative Commons”-Lizenz zu stellen, die es erlaubt die Inhalte frei für non-kommerzielle Dinge zu verwenden. [via] [...]

By: Howard Owens

Howard Owens — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 08:52:44 +0000

At a real computer now … well, since splogs have no ethics anyway, what’s to stop them from taking any content they want? RSS is more of an inducement to them than CC.

What I wanted to expand on on a full keyboard is that the nature of GHS is lots of small coverage with relatively few stories that are likely to have wide, nationwide, broad interest. It will be a rare story that gets so widely redistributed that it rises to the level of being punished by SE. It’s just not very likely to happen for a lot of reason around the likely sites to redistribute and the content of interest and the content available.

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:54:45 +0000

Fair enough Howard; however, it will be interesting to see if splog authors do take it as a license to start ripping even more content, although it will still violate the CC.

By: howard owens

howard owens — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:21:13 +0000

I’m posting from my treo,so I don’t even know if this will work and I certainly can’t be verbose.

I don’t think we need worry to much about so much redistribution that we get punished.

a splog would be commercial use and that danger exists even without CC