Comments on: Aggregation Aggravation: NYTCo Hit With Copyright Suit Over Hyperlocal Content http://paidcontent.org/2008/12/23/419-nytco-boston-sites-hit-with-copyright-violations-suit/ The economics of digital content Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jason Krebs http://paidcontent.org/2008/12/23/419-nytco-boston-sites-hit-with-copyright-violations-suit/#comment-65605 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 23:16:40 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/12/23/419-nytco-boston-sites-hit-with-copyright-violations-suit/#comment-65605 What's happening here is that the Gatehouse people are new to the internet so their learning curve is 6-8 years behind others for some aspects of the business. Back in 2001 I cared about deep-linking circumventing our homepage…but you get over it.

]]> By: markjosephson http://paidcontent.org/2008/12/23/419-nytco-boston-sites-hit-with-copyright-violations-suit/#comment-65604 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:35:02 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/12/23/419-nytco-boston-sites-hit-with-copyright-violations-suit/#comment-65604 This is really dangerous — calling out sites to stop linking to your site. Obviously, linkers must follow the rules on fair use and excerpting. As long as they do, it should be good news to get links.

You get traffic, you get link juice from the engines and your brand gets broader distribution.

I get that direct deep links past valuable homepage ads can be frustrating, but links are not going away. Jeff Jarvis has good POV here: http://bit.ly/nyyv.

This feels like it is more about competition in the local markets and protecting your turf. Kinda like the old days when two daily newspapers would slug it out (sometimes literally) for distribution and circulation.

]]> By: Whet Moser http://paidcontent.org/2008/12/23/419-nytco-boston-sites-hit-with-copyright-violations-suit/#comment-65603 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:46:58 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/12/23/419-nytco-boston-sites-hit-with-copyright-violations-suit/#comment-65603 Correction: HuffPo was called on the carpet for using the *entire* concert preview, many times over a couple months. The only thing they didn't use was the venue info, price, and time–in other words, they took everything except basic, publicly available information.

]]> By: Matt http://paidcontent.org/2008/12/23/419-nytco-boston-sites-hit-with-copyright-violations-suit/#comment-65602 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:24:39 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/12/23/419-nytco-boston-sites-hit-with-copyright-violations-suit/#comment-65602 Rather than suing – how about just getting better at your job? (Oh, and try thanking Boston.com for all the traffic.)

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