The Media Drop

Jonathan Dube has the scoop on why CMP Media links aren’t working when clicked through from Google News.

[Google News] has chosen to reproduce a significant amount of our content in a manner that we deem to be outside the bounds of fair use on the World Wide Web.

Ouch. A reasonably large publisher removed from Google’s News service can’t be good - for either party. Are the “blurbs” that Google scrapes from sites a little too long to be considered “fair use?” Steve Rubel writes that CMP is going overboard. Again.