Comments on: Q&A with Meltwater and NewsNow on NLA web licensing scheme http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/2010/01/05/qa-with-meltwater-and-newsnow-on-nla-web-licensing-scheme/ PR blog by Stephen Waddington Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:13:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: bm http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/2010/01/05/qa-with-meltwater-and-newsnow-on-nla-web-licensing-scheme/#comment-5461 bm Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:06:24 +0000 http://www.speedcommunications.com/blogs/wadds/?p=1772#comment-5461 The NLA is mistaken when they think that downloading a webpage is a copy. Because the webpage is available anywhere at any time, so the copy (virtually) was already made by the producers themselfes. To control the copies, the new media will have to stop access to download their articles. They do that when selling paper. You only get the newspaper after you pay for it. It should be forbidden for everyone to offer content free of charge (to anyone) and then ask for money subsequently. Especially for elecronic text data, pay in advance should be the standard and law. I am just a consumer, but I don't like to see news media do something like that. I don't like it when people give away things for free and then turn around to ask for money. The NLA is mistaken when they think that downloading a webpage is a copy. Because the webpage is available anywhere at any time, so the copy (virtually) was already made by the producers themselfes.

To control the copies, the new media will have to stop access to download their articles. They do that when selling paper. You only get the newspaper after you pay for it. It should be forbidden for everyone to offer content free of charge (to anyone) and then ask for money subsequently. Especially for elecronic text data, pay in advance should be the standard and law.

I am just a consumer, but I don’t like to see news media do something like that. I don’t like it when people give away things for free and then turn around to ask for money.

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