http://paidcontent.org/2010/11/26/419-court-says-uk-newspapers-can-charge-commercial-news-crawlers/ The economics of digital content Mon, 20 May 2013 20:16:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2010/11/26/419-court-says-uk-newspapers-can-charge-commercial-news-crawlers/#comment-81104 Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:59:08 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/11/26/419-court-says-uk-newspapers-can-charge-commercial-news-crawlers/#comment-81104 Al, I believe they do compensate the creators of the content; there is a general license purchased by the companies you mention, and this decision just means that end-users of those services must ALSO pay a license.
Seems odd there needs to be this double-dipping.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2010/11/26/419-court-says-uk-newspapers-can-charge-commercial-news-crawlers/#comment-81103 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:32:35 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/11/26/419-court-says-uk-newspapers-can-charge-commercial-news-crawlers/#comment-81103 This is great news as crawlers such as Meltwater and Moreover should be compensating the people who create this content.

]]> http://paidcontent.org/2010/11/26/419-court-says-uk-newspapers-can-charge-commercial-news-crawlers/#comment-81102 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:38:50 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2010/11/26/419-court-says-uk-newspapers-can-charge-commercial-news-crawlers/#comment-81102 A self-defeating move from NLA.

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