WHAT?!?!

I have got to go get a haircut, just to get away from the news.

With a hat tip to Instapundit we find ourselves at Jeff Jarvis' Buzz Machine, where the issue is copyright and censorship.

The title of the post, ripped from Shakespeare, is "First, kill the lawyers – before they kill the news."  It seems Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Connie Schultz is pushing a new concept.

Schultz says that David Marburger, an alleged First Amendment attorney for her paper, and his economics-professor brother, Daniel, have concocted their own dangerous thinking, proposing the copyright law be changed to insist that a newspaper’s story should appear only on its own web site for the first 24 hours before it can be aggregated or retold.

So much for blogs being up to date.  On the other hand, it would have slowed the spread of the details on the death of Mr Michael Jackson (there is only so much you can say on Twitter).

Then there is this post on Buzz Machine on Judge Richard Posner's comment on copyright.  Having read the total article at this location, I am not quite as concerned about the revered Judge Posner, but I was concerned for a moment.  The question of control of content in the age of the Internet is an interesting one.

Regards  —  Cliff