Wired News: Google News: Beta Not Make Money
Wired News: Google News: Beta Not Make Money: "So while other online publishers like Yahoo News and MSNBC earn tens of millions of dollars in revenue each year and continue to grow, Google News remains in beta mode -- three years after it launched -- long after most of the bugs have been excised.
The reason: The minute Google News runs paid advertising of any sort it could face a torrent of cease-and-desist letters from the legal departments of newspapers, which would argue that 'fair use' doesn't cover lifting headlines and lead paragraphs verbatim from their articles. Other publishers might simply block users originating from Google News, effectively snuffing it out.
What is fair use of a copyright work? According to New York University, where I teach, it covers comment, criticism, news reporting, research, scholarship and teaching, with several factors considered, including how much material is involved as a percentage of the entire work and whether use is of a commercial nature or strictly for nonprofit, educational purposes.
So if you are reviewing the latest Eminem CD and need to lift a few lyrics you're good to go. If you need to summarize a medical article on, say, arthritis, or a new study on the percentage of households with high-speed internet access, you can (within reason). But if you want to run a business of aggregating news content by running headlines and whole paragraphs of copyright work, you might run into trouble."
The reason: The minute Google News runs paid advertising of any sort it could face a torrent of cease-and-desist letters from the legal departments of newspapers, which would argue that 'fair use' doesn't cover lifting headlines and lead paragraphs verbatim from their articles. Other publishers might simply block users originating from Google News, effectively snuffing it out.
What is fair use of a copyright work? According to New York University, where I teach, it covers comment, criticism, news reporting, research, scholarship and teaching, with several factors considered, including how much material is involved as a percentage of the entire work and whether use is of a commercial nature or strictly for nonprofit, educational purposes.
So if you are reviewing the latest Eminem CD and need to lift a few lyrics you're good to go. If you need to summarize a medical article on, say, arthritis, or a new study on the percentage of households with high-speed internet access, you can (within reason). But if you want to run a business of aggregating news content by running headlines and whole paragraphs of copyright work, you might run into trouble."
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