Reuters has realized the folly of being a little too open about its stories: it’s going to use real-time search and filter software developed in Norway to find Internet sites which infringe its copyrights.
Reuters will probably go after sites that post whole articles, or portions or paragraphs, without specific permission, which will be bad news for thousands of Net sites which routinely cut-and-paste its stories, often with minimal or no reference to the source.
It’ll be interesting to see if it goes after blogs…
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