Pirate Social

Erick Schonfeld has a post on TechCrunch summarizing the kuffufle around newspapers, Google, and business models:

The newspaper industry is making a lot of noise these days about the Web “stealing” its content and destroying its business. Invariably, the newsmen point their ink-stained fingers at blogs, which arenothing more than “parasites”, or at Google, which is supposedly aiding and abetting in the wholesale theft of the newspaper’s precious words. Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Wall Street Journaland other fine (and not-so-fine) publications, recently warnedthat the industry should no longer allow Google “to steal our copyrights.” And yesterday, the A.P. declared all out war against the Internet.

PaidContent.org has an interview with Dean Singleton, AP Chairman. According to Singleton:

I think our industry has been very timid about protecting our content, probably because we’ve done so well in the past few years that we didn’t recognize that misappropriation is as serious an issue as it is. As we’re now relooking at business models, it’s become clear that we must protect the rights of our content…

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