A fascinating article by Chris Ahearn, the Media President at Reuters.
I believe in the link economy. Please feel free to link to our stories — it adds value to all producers of content. I believe you should play fair and encourage your readers to read-around to what others are producing if you use it and find it interesting.
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Let’s stop whining and start having real conversations across party lines. Let’s get online publishers, search engines, aggregators, ad networks, and self-publishers (bloggers) in a virtual room and determine how we can all get along. I don’t believe any one of us should be the self-appointed Internet police; agreeing on a code of conduct and ethics is in everyone’s best interests.
Very well written article and I wholeheartedly agree. I sincerely hope this changes a lot of people’s minds for the better. In the spirit of Reuters’ enlightenment, *links*
What better way to show your belief and support? :P
Did you hear about Rupert Murdoch (News Corp, Wall Street Journal, amongst many other holdings) planning to place all his sites behind a pay wall next year? Ha ha ha.
This is also probably in response to the Associated Press’ plan of using magical DRM. Of course, they don’t really get how this would work.
Good luck with that. :P
Let’s hope they don’t make a NIAA or something. Last thing we need is a News Industry Association of America suing everyone for stealing… news.