[WikiEN-l] Google Starts Including Wikipedia on Its News Site

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/6/22 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>:
>
>   
>> DG, lighten up on Noam Cohen a bit - he seems more disposed to be fair
>> to us than when I met him in Taipei in 2007, and seemed surprised that
>> any Wikipedians were actually, like, serious.  His point was factual
>> even if you may think it is misdirection.
>>     
>
>
> I took it as a direct message of his employer's stance. It's 100%
> indicative of the industry stance. Have you seen this *batshit insane*
> bullshit? (forwarded to me by Mike Peel):
>
> http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=43823&c=1
>
> "The Newspaper Licensing Agency has announced it is to begin
> regulating its customers' use of hyperlinks to newspaper articles on
> the web."
>
> These people were trying to email me bills for WMUK to pay for the use
> of newspaper links at all on Wikipedia. I told them to try the
> Foundation.
>
>   

I think that falls squarely into the category of "You couldn't
make this stuff up!" Incredible, simply incredible.


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen