Canadian Newspaper Charging $150 License Fee To Publish Excerpts 217
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."
Conrad Black needs money, it seems (Score:4, Funny)
This will definitely work.
Embrace the experimentalism (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.
Just disable Javascript (Score:5, Funny)
and surf the web like a man.
A real man, from 1995.
Re:Embrace the experimentalism (Score:3, Funny)
God damn it, don't give Dice Holdings any ideas!!!
Re:Embrace the experimentalism (Score:3, Funny)
This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations
Re:Insightful my Arse (Score:5, 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.
Re:Embrace the experimentalism (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Embrace the experimentalism (Score:4, Funny)
This post explaining how the parent violated Dice Holdings content standards has been removed to Dice content standards violations
Re:Embrace the experimentalism (Score:5, Funny)
We apologize for the fault in the Dice Holdings content standards. Those responsible have been sacked