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Old 03-05-2010, 09:51 PM
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I'm not sure how much this will affect a place like Blue Letter. Some aspects of Fair Use might be applicable, particularly regarding old junk.

This is a good thing for people that work doing what I do, because it'll perhaps help to prevent article farming and other things that ruin my paycheck, BUT at the same time, how on earth can we read a newspaper article from 15 years ago if the newspaper itself doesn't care enough to make it available to us anywhere?

That's one thing that really drives me up a tree about this kind of stuff - take NBC. If you put up the '83 SNL Stand Back performance on YouTube, they will yank it in a heartbeat while screeching copyright breach, but they don't have it available on any DVD that I know of so I can go BUY it and see it that way. Jerks.

So hopefully they'll only really be going after places that reproduce entire sites/batches of content/etc willy-nilly like the article farming sites do, and not places like our Mac archives, where it's obvious no one's trying to make money from anything, just put it somewhere fans can see it.
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