{"id":46066,"date":"2009-11-20T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T16:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091120\/0223387019.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-20T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T16:33:00","slug":"murdochs-the-times-accused-of-blatant-copying-just-as-it-tells-the-world-you-should-pay-for-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/46066","title":{"rendered":"Murdoch’s The Times Accused Of Blatant Copying, Just As It Tells The World You Should Pay For News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just this week, James Harding, the editor of The Times (of London), a paper owned by Rupert Murdoch, tried to explain why the news is worth paying for<\/a>, as the paper starts to put up a new business model to get consumers to pay for news. Unfortunately, Harding apparently didn’t get the message himself. As pointed out by Mathew Ingram<\/a>, just days after making the case for paying for news, The Times has been accused of publishing an article that it copied without permission from a blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can’t make this stuff up.<\/p>\n

Yes, just as Rupert Murdoch is calling aggregators (sites that simply summarize and link to stories) parasites<\/a> (even as he owns<\/a> a bunch of aggregators himself), one of his papers didn’t aggregate<\/i>, it flat out copied, without permission, a blog post that was written by Edgar Wright as a tribute to Edward Woodward<\/a>, who recently passed away. The Times eventually put up a “clarification”<\/a> online that had a link to the original site, but that hardly explains the original copying — especially during the very week that they’re trying to convince the world that news should be paid for….<\/p>\n

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Just this week, James Harding, the editor of The Times (of London), a paper owned by Rupert Murdoch, tried to explain why the news is worth paying for, as the paper starts to put up a new business model to get consumers to pay for news. Unfortunately, Harding apparently didn’t get the message himself. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}