Bill Keller, perennial NY Times columnist and former executive editor, railed against fair use and such last weekend calling any such reportage “theft”
All the while a photocopied article the Times didn’t own was pushed on readers elsewhere on their site. This was pointed out by its owners, the Boston Phoenix, who were amused, but suggestive of a lawsuit over the ironic juxtaposition (aka “hypocrisy”). So then this was opinion-editorialed:
“By the way, when the Boston Phoenix objected, The Times took down the PDF, triumphantly depriving Clark Booth of the chance to be read by a lot of current readers.”
-Bill “Theft” Keller, “Piracy Twits“, OpEd NY Times @February 10, 2012, 12:19 pm
Still there on your servers, Bill:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/opinion/oped/ClarkBoothArticle.pdf.pdf
Can I call you Theft? Theft Keller is such a badass name.
-Chris Adams
New York
February 10, 2012, 7:27 pm
Update: Still there. (May 12, 2012)
