Eoin Purcell's Blog

A very fine post by Brian O’Leary over at Magellan Media Partners:

The story broke pretty fast, and various news organizations struggled with how to “cover” a story for which the content was effectively unavailable.  Time.com and Politico decided the story was the story, and so “fair use” could justify copying an entire article and posting it on their sites.

via Pirates’ wages.