A commenter on this blog tipped me off to GateHouse Media’s lawsuit against the New York Times Company for what amounts to copyright infringement taking headlines and ledes verbatim from GateHouse’s Wicked Local sites and publishing them on Boston.com’s Your Town sites. (The New York Times owns The Boston Globe and Boston.com.)
Well, just a couple of hours ago, Ellyn Michele Angelotti of the Poynter Institute reported (via The Boston Globe) that a judge has denied GateHouse’s request for an injunction against the New York Times and would only consider one after Jan. 5, when a jury trial is scheduled to begin.
Not surprisingly, the implications of the lawsuit have free speech and fair use advocates burning up their keyboards, perhaps with good reason. In a blog post on Journalistopia, Danny Sanchez writes:
This article appears in Dec 24-30, 2008.
