Re: Paying for On-line Argus
What's killing newspapers isn't so much linking and fair-use of their articles, it's things like Craigslist and other competitors for their ad revenue which, combined with the explosion in alternate news sources, are pretty much eating the lunches of almost every traditional paper-and-presses newspaper.
(And if you think about it, newspapers would, or should WANT people to link to their articles . . . clicks on links--eyeballs on ads--are what advertisers actually pay for. The problem being that the newspapers can't generate enough advertiser revenue to keep their operations above water, and so they have to start looking at online-reader/subscriber-pay models. And as JJ notes, the big-company-profit-off-the-top problem doesn't help at all.)
What's killing newspapers isn't so much linking and fair-use of their articles, it's things like Craigslist and other competitors for their ad revenue which, combined with the explosion in alternate news sources, are pretty much eating the lunches of almost every traditional paper-and-presses newspaper.
(And if you think about it, newspapers would, or should WANT people to link to their articles . . . clicks on links--eyeballs on ads--are what advertisers actually pay for. The problem being that the newspapers can't generate enough advertiser revenue to keep their operations above water, and so they have to start looking at online-reader/subscriber-pay models. And as JJ notes, the big-company-profit-off-the-top problem doesn't help at all.)
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