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September 14, 2004
Who's News is it anyway?
Today, the German newspaper publisher Handelsblatt started selling a cheap pocket sized newspaper - titled News. News is aimed at the "iPod generation" and apart from containing - well news, it also contains quotes from weblogs (on the "interactive" page). This is an - um - interesting use of weblog material (like this example) that is, in part, copyrighted using a non commercial creative commons license.
Update: There's now quite a bit of heated discussion ongoing in the German blogging community. Start here for some additional views.
As a whole I guess bloggers like being quoted and indeed they mostly strive to be quoted (i.e. linked to) - so more press is good press for them. On the other hand, if someone explicitly states that their material is not to be used in a commercial context (and News is a commercial venture), then that wish should be respected.
Posted by Matthew at September 14, 2004 08:07 PM