Jill Abramson Quote
That a chunk of code written by one person in six weeks could summarize the state of the world was revolutionary. To Google, it was another step toward its stated goal of making the company an institution that makes the world a better place. But others in the news business begged to differ. There are those who think they have a right to take our news content and use it for their own purposes without contributing a penny to its production, said then News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. Their almost wholesale misappropriation of our stories is not fair use. To be impolite, it’s theft.
Jill Abramson
That a chunk of code written by one person in six weeks could summarize the state of the world was revolutionary. To Google, it was another step toward its stated goal of making the company an institution that makes the world a better place. But others in the news business begged to differ. There are those who think they have a right to take our news content and use it for their own purposes without contributing a penny to its production, said then News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. Their almost wholesale misappropriation of our stories is not fair use. To be impolite, it’s theft.