Fox News Caught Aggregating Others Copyrighted Photographs... Something Murdoch Insists Is Illegal
from the well-how-about-that dept
Rupert Murdoch and the top execs at News Corp. keep insisting that sites that aggregate content from elsewhere on the internet are "stealing." Of course, as we've noted, News Corp. has an awful lot of sites that rely on aggregating content from elsewhere -- so apparently it's only legit when Murdoch does it himself. Murdoch, of course, has also famously claimed that fair use is a doctrine that courts would "bar altogether" if challenged in the courts -- but at the same time, his own company regularly claims "fair use" to defend its own actions.That's generally called hypocrisy.
And it keeps getting worse. The latest is that TorrentFreak has noticed that Fox News recently put together a photo gallery of the Icelandic volcano eruption, and used some photos from Flickr -- even though the photos were limited were covered by copyright and not free for others to use without permission and/or license. The photographer in question has tried contacting Fox News and has so far been totally ignored. And yet Murdoch just mentions in passing -- incorrectly -- that he thinks Google News "steals" his content by sending him traffic and its front page news...
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They deserve to be punished.
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Silly Mike, it's only illegal when it happens to you, but when you do it it's perfectly fine.
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As for 'silly Mike', that is exactly Mike's point. Murdoch only screams when it's him being 'affected'.
Better 'silly' than 'shilly' anyways ;)
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No it's not. If you merely assume that he is simply acting in his own best interest then all the hypocrisy quickly disappears. It's not hypocrisy, it's selfishness, see the difference.
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the photographer in question should sue imo.
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