For numerous reasons, it seems that there's an "is-ought" disconnect here, as is often the case.
Business tends to be exceedingly spooked by risk, especially long-tail unconstrained risk. And copyright litigation presents an excellent example of same.
There are also other concerns. In an era of physical print and shrinking "news holes", the actual textual content of newspapers tended to shrink, perhaps establishing a tradition of no longer printing speeches verbatim. With the attention economy of the Web, the risk of sending readers off-site is a concern I've heard voiced many times both in print and public discussions and privately amongst people I know in the press. It's quite unfortunate, but real.
The case of US Government documents, in which there is no copyright concern is especially inexcusable. I'd agree with you strongly there.
Increasingly when I find such an opinion piece, regardless of the publication, I look for the source document and try to read it first. (I don't always follow through, but it is if nothing else an aspirational goal.)
For numerous reasons, it seems that there's an "is-ought" disconnect here, as is often the case.
Business tends to be exceedingly spooked by risk, especially long-tail unconstrained risk. And copyright litigation presents an excellent example of same.
There are also other concerns. In an era of physical print and shrinking "news holes", the actual textual content of newspapers tended to shrink, perhaps establishing a tradition of no longer printing speeches verbatim. With the attention economy of the Web, the risk of sending readers off-site is a concern I've heard voiced many times both in print and public discussions and privately amongst people I know in the press. It's quite unfortunate, but real.
The case of US Government documents, in which there is no copyright concern is especially inexcusable. I'd agree with you strongly there.
Increasingly when I find such an opinion piece, regardless of the publication, I look for the source document and try to read it first. (I don't always follow through, but it is if nothing else an aspirational goal.)