Comments on: Blogger Threatened http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2005/02/15/blogger-threatened/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:44:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Roy Jacobsen http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2005/02/15/blogger-threatened/#comment-3948 Roy Jacobsen Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:41:37 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=1251#comment-3948 One would think that a news paper, of all organizations, would have a healthy respect for those quaint notions of fair use and 1st Amendment rights. But then, who knows if it was some rocket surgeon in the bowels of the paper's legal department who cooked this up. One would think that a news paper, of all organizations, would have a healthy respect for those quaint notions of fair use and 1st Amendment rights.

But then, who knows if it was some rocket surgeon in the bowels of the paper’s legal department who cooked this up.

]]> By: Bene Diction http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2005/02/15/blogger-threatened/#comment-3947 Bene Diction Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:25:36 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=1251#comment-3947 I spent some time at his site, but not enough to grasp Tusla politics. Thanks Joel. I spent some time at his site, but not enough to grasp Tusla politics. Thanks Joel.

]]> By: Joel Thomas http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2005/02/15/blogger-threatened/#comment-3946 Joel Thomas Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:04:17 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=1251#comment-3946 I'm not familiar with his blogging practices. Some bloggers do excerpt far beyond anything that could be considered fair use -- sometimes re-printing as much as 2/3 of an entire article. There are radio stations in Oklahoma that do little more in their news than lift stories from newspapers. I think that is disrespectful to journalists who have labored hard over a story. Since there are no official blogging ethics, the newspaper may be trying to help set the boundaries for what is fair use. Perhaps they have overreacted, but the Tulsa World is a conservative Republican newspaper that tends to take a cautious stance toward just about everything. I’m not familiar with his blogging practices. Some bloggers do excerpt far beyond anything that could be considered fair use — sometimes re-printing as much as 2/3 of an entire article.

There are radio stations in Oklahoma that do little more in their news than lift stories from newspapers. I think that is disrespectful to journalists who have labored hard over a story.

Since there are no official blogging ethics, the newspaper may be trying to help set the boundaries for what is fair use. Perhaps they have overreacted, but the Tulsa World is a conservative Republican newspaper that tends to take a cautious stance toward just about everything.

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