PLEASE READ: Posting Newspaper Articles

[rizzo]

The reproduction of articles on BigFooty has gotten a bit out of control lately, and the boys upstairs have received a polite request from Fairfax to remove material.

The Official BIG rule is now:

Headline
link
Excerpt up to a paragraph
link

No more, unless you have specific remarks about specific paragraphs or sentences in which case:

Your comment
Quote
More comment

As of now, entire articles are not to be posted. This includes in private boards and social groups.

Moderators have been given a list of links provided by Fairfax, these should be edited within the next few days. Please follow any direction from your board mods, and edit any entire articles you see while surfing around the site. Thanks.

Please follow this new rule as we don't want BigFooty to get into any trouble.

Cheers,
Rizzo

 

[PrideOf]

Was the email from Fairfax asking you to take down articles in response to one sent from BigFooty asking Fairfax journos to attribute material they rip off this forum?

 

[September_Glory]

Was the email from Fairfax asking you to take down articles in response to one sent from BigFooty asking Fairfax journos to attribute material they rip off this forum?

hahahaha

This is a more important issue.

Haven't posters proven that material has been straight up lifted off this site? and is that illegal?

 

[HarryTiger]

Well if you read the full article here then you aren't being exposed to Fairfax's ads at their own sites. Can't argue with them, they create the content.

 

[dmc333]

If Fairfax are so worried about their content, which they are giving away, they should move to a subscription based system, or do what the Fin Review does and make the text copy proof.

If their ball bags are so empty that they can't monetize their premium content, why do they bother? Their shitty online ads aren't going to make up any shortfall.

 

[PrideOf]

hahahaha

This is a more important issue.

Haven't posters proven that material has been straight up lifted off this site? and is that illegal?

No. It's a journalistic ethics question, that they shouldn't be lazy and chase their own sources if they aren't going to attribute material they pinch from somewhere else, but it's ethics not law. That makes a case harder to stick than a Nick Stevens tackle.

 

[Chief]

Fairfax have undertaken to attribute content correctly in future.

 

[Supermercado]

And they've got lawyers that can prove you did anything, so they win every time.

 

[favourites]

I know a club website operator who looks on big footy to write his VFL report articles haha