Lincoln Bandlow Comments on Journalism Dispute Between Washington Post, Gawker
1/12/2010
At what point does the standard blogger practice of excerpting and riffing on a news story someone else wrote jump the tracks and go from a legitimate exercise of the doctrine of fair use to copyright infringement?
Ask 10 different intellectual property experts and you're likely to hear 10 different answers.
Fair use on the Internet remains a supremely unsettled question, as a panel discussion today revisiting a recent dust-up involving The Washington Post and Gawker ably demonstrated. Read more ...
