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News Corp banned from 1 Eyed Eel

Posted by SuperEel 22 on November 20, 2024 at 10:38am in NRL

This morning I received a legal threat from News Corp regarding the reposting of their stories on this site.

Despite the fact the site has operated in its current form for over 15 years, it is now apparently an issue and I have neither the time nor the money to battle this legally. 

While I disagree with their sudden assertion of copyright, particularly given the fact many of their journalists source stories from this site and spin it off as their own, I do not wish to poke the bear.

What does this mean?

It means you cannot copy/paste an entire article from a News Corp site to 1 Eyed Eel.

What can you do?

You can summarise an article and post that on the site. It has to be your own words.

I'm sure some of our site legal eagles can delve deeper into Australian copyright law to explain this, however essentially you can't just rip content straight onto the site.

There's no issue with copying across tweets, or posting articles from the official Parramatta or NRL sites.

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  • Longfin Eel November 20, 2024 at 10:53am

    Just copy and paste the News article into Copilot and ask it to summarise. Paste the output back into this site. At least we'll be able to get a more consise version of the story without all the crap their "journalists" write.

    I hope you banned them from using 1EyedEel content?

    • SuperEel 22 > Longfin Eel November 20, 2024 at 11:00am

      I have messaged one of our legal eagles to see if there is anything I can respond to about requiring acknowledgement of 1 Eyed as a source when their "journalists" lift info from this site and pass it off as their own.

      • Axel > SuperEel 22 November 20, 2024 at 2:22pm

        Super, publishers use this type of scare tactics quite often. Was it a cease and desist letter? 

        • SuperEel 22 > Axel November 20, 2024 at 3:55pm

          It did mention cease and desist, but it came from one of their editors, not their legal counsel.

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          • Axel > SuperEel 22 November 20, 2024 at 4:51pm

            If it didn't come from legal then I personally would ignore it and tell them to go *uck themselves.
            Warning letters from publishers are always from legal not editorial.

            I'm guessing one of their editors is pissed off with the way we slag their articles and journos. Maybe a bold piece of shit put them up to it.

            • SuperEel 22 > Axel November 20, 2024 at 5:41pm

              I've got one of our site legal brains looking at it for me.

      • Parra_Greg > SuperEel 22 November 20, 2024 at 4:35pm

        great if they are using our commentary for their news articles we should do the same

        • SuperEel 22 > Parra_Greg November 20, 2024 at 6:23pm

          I did think about that. Maybe we have to pop some bait up at some point.

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