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Lawsuit Stops Headline Scraping

Posted by kdawson on from the ok-geez-so-i'll-stpop-sending-you-traffic dept.

Stephen Larson alerts us to the out-of-court settlement of Gatehouse v NY Times, a lawsuit that attempted to stop the Boston Globe from linking to headlines and excerpting initial sentences from a competitor's Web site. At issue was the Globe's practice — barely distinguishable from those of Google News, Yahoo, and others — of linking to another news source's coverage of local news. The upshot is that the Boston Globe will stop the linking. No judicial precedent was set, because the case was settled before reaching a judge.

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  1. Lawsuit Stops Headline Scraping by tpheiska · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stephen Larson alerts us to the out-of-court settlement of Gatehouse v NY Times, a lawsuit that attempted to stop the Boston Globe from linking to headlines and excerpting initial sentences from a competitor's Web site. Read more here.

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    1. Re:Lawsuit Stops Headline Scraping by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 4, Funny

      Mr. Piquepaille?!? We thought you was dead!

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