Uh… they’re reporting news. As long as you don’t claim it is your work…. you’re allowed to link to it and quote it.

That is copywright law.

The reason why the news industry is doing poorly is that they are 85% radical liberal and it turns out that radical liberals today don’t read much.

CONSERVATIVE news sources are doing quite well, thanks.

And it still took 2 trials.

What if I read the news at CBS2 and then orally told the story to a friend? Should my friend be ‘paying CBS2′ for some copyright laws?

These copyright laws are ridiculous! They only serve the greedy. Fuck these laws! This is why I support piracy. I get immense satisfaction when i watch a pirated movie….aaaaahhhhhhh yeaaahhhh….LOL!

Tell me, did anybody compensate pythograss for using his laws today? What about singers using old bible songs and converting them to pop hits? Did they pay the church? Where do we draw the line?

The news business is dying because they choose to report propaganda instead of actual news. I HOPE CBS goes under.

As Bar stated above, 2.0 is weblog, not a money making website. A weblog is like a diary. Bar printing this story here is equalent to me borroing his news paper to read the story or told orally about it. Should we now pay for that too? Talk about greed.

If this was a commercial enterprise, then you would have a valid point.
But all this content is only here to comment upon and criticize.
So we are not violating any copyrights whatsoever.

The news is not going away, some newspapers are but there will always be news in some form or another.

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From http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#107
§ 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use40

Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include —

(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;

(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;

(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
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Now I could read the story and then re-write it here in my own words, but I don’t see that as all that different. I am still getting the news from some other source, because I am not doing it myself.