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Online ad agency on blocking search engines

Administrator — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:48:51 +0000

Addvantage Media partners question the soundness of newspapers' thinking in blocking search engines, and give an informative update on the issues we face.

How Murdoch isn risking reducing traffice to his own sites

Tim Berners-Lee on the Right to Link .... from way back as 1997

Administrator — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:19:32 +0000

Myths are dispelled in this quite revealing piece of internet history started by Tim Berners-Lee in 1997. It puts the current debates in perspective.

We tend to forget that search engines - which are what enable us to find interesting web content that we might want to link to in the first place - predate the internet as we know it today . Search engines have evolved in DNA-like fashion from the days of lists maintained by people like Tim Berners-Lee on CERN, to early programs like Archie, the first search program written by a student and Gopher (1991, even I remember that, I hate to admit!) to all the variants we now know today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

What the newspapers are doing is tantamount to blocking the lifeblood of the Internet. It is like deliberately introducing thrombosis in an otherwise healthy organism.

Linking Not Stealing Content

Administrator — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:33:10 +0000

This is an IT journalist's persepctive on why seargh engines and aggregators are not stealing content. It gives enough technical background of what search engines and aggregators actually do without boggling the mind of internet users who just want to create, forward and follow links in the way the internet was designed to allow.

http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/daveyw/2010/01/09/murdoch-cuts-off-news-nose-to-spite-face/

An Informed Exposition of the Issues by a PR Professional

Administrator — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:59:25 +0000

This is written from the point of view of the PR industry, but the issues of the way old media are coping with the new e-economy landscape has much wider implications to the end users of search engines and news aggregrators - all businesses, organisations and individuals.

NLA vs the World

Fox News Sued For Copyright Infringement; Complaint Mocks Murdoch's Comments On 'Stealing' Content

Administrator — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:15:07 +0000

The double standard of arguments against linking have been exposed as Fox argues fair use in exactly the same way search engines and news aggregators argue for fair use. Here's the story.

No Legal basis for hyperlink tax

Administrator — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:52:22 +0000

Meltwater Group, a privately held Norwegian global company committed to disrupting the status quo through novel technologies and a powerful, global sales and distribution infrastructure, looking to the Copyright Tribunal to clarify the issues of hyperlinks being a public amenity. This move makes it clear that what the newspapers are proposing is nothing less than a hyperlink tax!

http://meltwater.com/en/meltwater-takes-nla-uk-copyright-tribunal-over-proposed-hyperlink-tax

Linking is NOT violation of copyright

Administrator — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:05:00 +0000

David Drummond, Senior VP and Chief Legal Counsel of Google, denying that Google violates any rights by linking when it uses headlines and a summary to flag up news articles on publicly available sites:

"This is not a question of Google not respecting copyright. This is a fundamental disagreement when you're applying copyright rules on the web," he said, adding that the idea that indexing sites was a violation "flies in the face of how the web has been built and how it operates."

Full text of David Drummond speech

The digital bill is also perceived to hold hidden threats

Administrator — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:38:00 +0000

The threat of badly thought through legislation surrounds many aspects of the digital economy, and will affect life as it is lived on the internet.

Protests grow over digital bill

The Register on Walled Garden Searches

Administrator — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:37:00 +0000

The realistic prospect of "walled garden" searches gets given a beating by The Register in these two articles.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/03/ms_google_bribes_nixed/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/27/bing_google_murdoch/