Arianna Huffington on Copyright and Blogging
People like … to confuse aggregation with wholesale misappropriation, which violates copyright law. At HuffPost, aggregation goes along with a tremendous amount of original content, including original reporting and over 300 original blog posts a day. And we love it when someone links to one of our posts, or excerpts a small amount and links back to us.
I hope these words don’t come back to haunt her. Regardless, the preceding sentence was our commentary, and we’re hyperlinking to The Guardian where her article originally appeared.
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