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Canadian Newspaper Charging $150 License Fee To Publish Excerpts

Posted by samzenpus on from the cut-and-pay dept.

dakohli writes "Michael Geist has pointed out an interesting development at the National Post's website. 'If you try to highlight the text to cut and paste it, you are presented with a pop-up request to purchase a license if you plan to post the article to a website, intranet or a blog. The fee would be $150.' He notes that even if you are highlighting a 3rd party quote inside an article a pop-up asking if you want a license will appear. Mr Geist points out this might be contrary to Canadian Copyright Law's fair use provisions."

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  1. Conrad Black needs money, it seems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This will definitely work.

  2. Embrace the experimentalism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We should embrace their spirit of experimentalism and their desire to try potential new revenue streams, and start charging money for posting as an A/C on slashdot.

    The fee should start out as two cents, natch.

    1. Re:Embrace the experimentalism by game+kid · · Score: 2, Funny

      God damn it, don't give Dice Holdings any ideas!!!

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    2. Re:Embrace the experimentalism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations

    3. Re:Embrace the experimentalism by camperdave · · Score: 3, Funny

      Whoosh? The post made no cents.

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    4. Re:Embrace the experimentalism by Zontar+The+Mindless · · Score: 3, Funny

      This post explaining how the parent violated Dice Holdings content standards has been removed to Dice content standards violations

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    5. Re:Embrace the experimentalism by Alranor · · Score: 5, Funny

      We apologize for the fault in the Dice Holdings content standards. Those responsible have been sacked

  3. Just disable Javascript by Spy+Handler · · Score: 4, Funny

    and surf the web like a man.

    A real man, from 1995.

  4. Re:Insightful my Arse by Capsaicin · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can also print out the HTML and wipe my ass with it if I like.

    Wiping your arse with an infringing copy is an extremely low level of freedom to aspire to.

    Well look at that. I end the last sentence of my post with a preposition and I get modded down as a Troll. My bad.

    At least it reaffirms my faith in the quality of the moderation here. Keep it factual, keep it fair, keep it grammatical.

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