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Is clipping articles fair use? u.s. court says no

 

Is Clipping Articles Fair Use? U.S. Court Says No

 
The term "fair use" gets thrown around a lot in copyright cases, and it refers to an exception to copyright law that allows for the publication of portions or derivations of a copyrighted work — without the permission of the original creator. On the web, fair use has been used to defend aggregators such asGoogle News, since they take portions of articles to create a service.
Does that label also apply to a service that does a similar thing, but for anewsletter? A U.S. court recently said it doesn't.
As paidContent describes, a federal court ruled that Meltwater, a Norwegian company that does "news and social media monitoring" was violating copyright with its newsletter service. Meltwater's service scans articles for keywords, then takes the headline, the first paragraph or "lede," and the parts of the story where the keyword appears.


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 2 Replies

N.K.Assumi (Advocate)     27 March 2013

Thanks Beni Prasad.

Santosh Kumar Tiwari (advocate)     11 April 2013

Yes, It is so because the item which is clipped is not the original thought of the person who created it. It is only modified thing and copyright is not to be given to the modifying items. This will destroy the definition of copyright. 


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