News aggregation and copyright in Europe and China

Posted on January 4, 2007
Filed Under Advertising, Copyright, Journalism, Newspapers, Search, Technology |

Good item from IHT on changes that are likely to reign in rampant “piracy” by Chinese web sites re-purposing content from newspaper sites and in Europe an overview of the ongoing court case by AFP against Google News.

According to one recent academic study, newspaper readership in China has declined sharply in the past three years, with the proportion of people who say they read a newspaper at least once a week falling to 22 percent from 26 percent since 2003.

A major presumed cause for the decline is that big Internet content providers, or portals, have become one- stop sources for all manner of information, from news and entertainment to blogs. Until recently, for most portals the general practice involved lifting news and other information directly from other sources, sometimes crediting the original source and sometimes not, but rarely paying for it. 

 

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