{"id":105180,"date":"2017-07-14T08:41:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=105180"},"modified":"2017-07-14T08:41:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T08:41:56","slug":"have-news-aggregators-had-their-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/have-news-aggregators-had-their-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Have News Aggregators Had Their Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The<\/em> Independent<\/em> recently made the headlines themselves for all the wrong reasons after a freelance journalist accused them of lifting his story from an online news source and refusing to pay for it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to reports on The Press Gazette<\/a><\/u>, The Independent<\/em> told the freelancer: \u2018There is no copyright in news.\u2019<\/p>\n

In law, this statement is technically correct, however some media pundits have questioned The Independent<\/em>\u2019s ethics, highlighting how little text from the original article was rewritten.<\/p>\n

Jon Harris, in his role as the chairman of the National Association of Press Agencies, said<\/a><\/u>: \u2018Journalists are of course entitled to follow up news stories filed by others but as long as they do their own work on it such as getting extra background, extra quotes and extra pictures. Bashing the original version around a bit doesn\u2019t cut the mustard anymore.<\/p>\n

So the news<\/a> that Rochdale Online<\/em>, a hyper-local news site, has recently won a court battle against Manchester Evening News<\/em> for a similar issue, will surely be seen as good news by freelance journalists, smaller news publishers and news agencies.<\/p>\n

Rochdale Onli<\/em>ne claimed Manchester Evening News<\/em> had taken a story from its site and attempted to pass it off as the work of one of their own journalists.<\/p>\n

Rochdale Online<\/em> chairman told journalists: \u2018The MEN defence was \u201cthere is no copyright in news\u201d and as the article was not copied \u201cverbatim\u201d there was therefore no copying and hence no breach of copyright.\u2019<\/p>\n

The court disagreed with this line of defence and ordered Manchester Evening News<\/em> to pay \u00a3200 plus costs.<\/p>\n

Will this set a precedent in future claims of plagiarism and how will it impact on the now widespread practice of news aggregation? Have the news aggregators (and who isn\u2019t an aggregator these days) had their day or will \u2018copy and paste\u2019 journalism continue to thrive in this digital age?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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