Clueless paper in Tulsa threatens blogger for linking and quoting

Ed Cone
Tulsa paper threatens to sue blogger over posting excerpts of its stories and links to its site. Tulsa paper needs to get a clue.
Blogger Michael Bates: "I believe I have respected the World's copyrights within the fair-use exemption. Let the World name the specific articles in which it alleges that I have exceeded fair use. I have violated no law by directing readers to the Tulsa World's own website to read the Tulsa World's own content as the World itself presents it."

Hmm. Is this a job for the Media Bloggers Association?

via Rebecca

Reminds me a bit about the deep linking debate in years past, but even more stupid. Maybe a long time ago clueless people could get away with shaking their fist at fair use, but these days it just makes you look even more clueless. The Media Bloggers Association sounds like a good idea though. Maybe we can make a special hall of fame for stupid letters to bloggers.

3 Comments

01. /pd - Feb 17, 2005 - 01:30

Yeah a "Hall of Stupid letters to Bloggers" !! I second that notion.. !!

02. Joel - Feb 18, 2005 - 14:34

looks like you were right! Bates just sent this letter to the paper tonight!

03. Jonathan - Feb 18, 2005 - 22:13

Check out ChillingEffects.org ... helpful here!

http://www.chillingeffects.org/linking/

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