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The Huffington Post's local "aggregation" wing1 2 straight stole our entire Bon Iver Critic's Choice--they didn't ask permission ("read the whole article"? that is the whole article, dumbass). Here's a screen shot (or click the thumbnail), since we're obviously about to ask them to take it down.
Update: I guess they left off the time, price, and Vic address/contact info. Perhaps that's what counts as "fair use" in this bright future we live in now.
I'm skeptical of places that mostly rewrite existing content without adding to it or making dumb jokes, but this is outright theft.
Local Web editors: keep an eye on them.
1. "ChuffPo", as I belive TOC Web editor Scott Smith cleverly termed it.
2. Also note the ginormous, ugly, pointless-to-the-reader tag cloud (click through to the screen shot if the page is gone). ONE DAY YOU WILL BE CALLED TO ANSWER FOR YOUR SEO DARK ARTS.
What bothers me is the unclear attribution. It looks like original Chuffpo content save for the tiny line under the hed. Ideally, it would say "Chicago Reader Critics' Pick" at the top of the body in the same font size.
I'm not the only one who's bothered by it. No less than Roger Ebert was confused too:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/11/roger-ebe...
(Writing as HollyMartinz in a clever nod to The Third Man)
In days, the entire Chicago metro area will collapse into a vortex created by a concentric RSS spiral.
Then the survivors can Twitter it!
They are a complete bunch of thieves and for all their high minded principles they abuse fair-use and also hot-link other content.
I could go on, but its just sad really.
Cheers,
Lori R. Price
Managing Editor
Citizens For Legitimate Government
http://www.legitgov.org/
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