The Post Vs. Gawker: When Does Linking Become Larceny?

Tue, Aug 4, 2009

Digital, Legal

Washington Post writer Ian Shapira recently reported a feature on a business guru who consults executives on how to deal with twentysomething employees and clients. When Gawker wrote a snarky post based on (and linking to) his article, he was thrilled at first. Then, prodded by an editor, he looked more closely at the Gawker post and decided that, because it recapitulated his article so throughly, he had been “ripped off,” which he then wrote in a commentary.

© 2009 TIME (full story)

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