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photostill · 30-05-12, 19:28

This is no different than the case against Google that occurred in Belgium. Newspapers there, sued Google because their content was showing up on the internet and they hadn't been paid their licensing fees. The court sided with the newspapers deciding Google was guilty through news aggregation. Google wound up having a pay a fine per day for the incidences.

Google promptly cut out any reference to the newspapers represented by Sofam (the suing party on behalf of the newspapers) cut their links to prevent their articles from being shown, and filtered all references to those newspapers. In effect they vanished from the net.

Not but a few months later, those same newspapers were crying again about not being on Google to be found on the internet. You see the whole thing was about forcing Google to pay a news ransom in the form of licensing to use their content. They didn't bet on losing readership in the process.

This is exactly what needs to be done here. The charity is not as big as Google but I bet if this charity went public with the news of what was happening to it, public pressure and bad publicity would probably convince them that their present course isn't the smartest.

30-05-12, 19:28	#2
photostill The Enigma Join Date: Apr 2012 Posts: 9,977 Thanks: 3,009 Thanked 1,524 Times in 928 Posts	Re: Charity Must Pay To Link To Newspaper Articles This is no different than the case against Google that occurred in Belgium. Newspapers there, sued Google because their content was showing up on the internet and they hadn't been paid their licensing fees. The court sided with the newspapers deciding Google was guilty through news aggregation. Google wound up having a pay a fine per day for the incidences. Google promptly cut out any reference to the newspapers represented by Sofam (the suing party on behalf of the newspapers) cut their links to prevent their articles from being shown, and filtered all references to those newspapers. In effect they vanished from the net. Not but a few months later, those same newspapers were crying again about not being on Google to be found on the internet. You see the whole thing was about forcing Google to pay a news ransom in the form of licensing to use their content. They didn't bet on losing readership in the process. This is exactly what needs to be done here. The charity is not as big as Google but I bet if this charity went public with the news of what was happening to it, public pressure and bad publicity would probably convince them that their present course isn't the smartest. __________________ You can help this site, by clicking on the link below to buy a Premium Account. & Thank you for helping us. Click;