Christiaan Briggs wrote:
Maybe some of you would like to respond to this interesting question, are press releases copyrighted?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:News_release
Press releases are clearly copyrighted. An argument could be made about this in court, but I have no interest *at all* in making such an argument. On Wikinews and elsewhere, we can make use of a press release as factual information, but it would be absurd for us to just publish them or base stories directly on them, license or no license.
Our journalistic standards should be higher than that of lazy reporters who simply regurgitate whatever a company tells them.
--Jimbo