Boston Phoenix
New York paper caught pirating another copyrighted article from Boston
By adamg - 2/10/12 - 6:45 amOops, they did it again. The New York Times, which hates when people post copies of its work, posted a copy of a Boston Review article without permission. The Phoenix's Carly Carioli, who called out the Gray Lady for posting a story now owned by the Phoenix just the other day, does the honors again:
How many more examples of this hypocrisy will we have to uncover before the Times begins to acknowledge that the problem isn't merely piracy -- the problem is a copyright law written so stringently that not even a newspaper with the resources of the New York Times can comply with it? As several commenters on our original post have pointed out, under some of the proposed language for SOPA and PIPA, a website that engaged in copyright infringement equivalent to the Times's hosting of our article could be blocked from the DNS registry.
That was the entire point of my first post: that the copyright fundamentalism advocated by big-media barons like Keller and the Times is counterproductive -- even to newspapers like the Times.
New York Times lives in a copyright glass house
By adamg - 2/8/12 - 3:50 pmThe day before ex-Times editor and current Times thumbsucker Bill Keller blasted people who reprint Times content without its permission, the Times reprinted a PDF of a Real Paper story without permission from its current copyright owner, our very own Boston Phoenix. Not just the words, but the actual pages from that long-ago alt-weekly, whose remnants the Phoenix bought.
The Phoenix is not amused:
This is about the most literal instance of copyright theft, in terms of source material (someone else's), method (photocopied a print article), and intention of the law (don't copy someone else's stuff and distribute it as your own), as can be imagined.
A farewell to Clif Garboden
By adamg - 2/11/11 - 8:10 pmBoston Phoenix Editor Carly Carioli reports the death of longtime Phoenix editor and writer Clif Garboden.
Phoenix to UHub: You got punked
By adamg - 11/29/10 - 5:49 pmPhoenix Editor Carly Carioli has a short reply to the Dig item - which we, being good little media sponges, sucked right in - about how Entercom might be thinking of buying and shutting down WFNX to move WEEI to FM:
For the record: it's total bullshit.
No doubt Jeff Lawrence is formulating a response at this very moment.
Facebook to Boston Phoenix: You call that a patent? We'll show you a patent!
By adamg - 11/9/10 - 9:53 amLast fall, the Phoenix sued Facebook, alleging the social network violated patents owned by a Phoenix subsidiary for creating user profiles online. Facebook yesterday returned the favor, suing the Phoenix for alleged violations of patents it owns on equally fundamental parts of the Web.
In its lawsuit, like the Phoenix suit, filed in US District Court in Boston, Facebook charges search engines on the Phoenix Web site that let uses find bands, events and restaurants violate a Facebook patent on a technique for letting users narrow the results of a search query. Facebook also charges its patent is violated by a Phoenix search engine that lets users specify exactly what sort of sex acts they want to see in X-rated videos catalogued by the Phoenix's adult sites.
Phoenix writer was so pwned today
By adamg - 10/15/10 - 6:19 pmBlue Mass. Group captures the interchange between David Bernstein kvetching about a young woman asking a gubernatorial debate question about health insurance and the woman, who checked Twitter to see what people were saying about the debate.
Maybe this is where the falafel thing comes from
By adamg - 8/26/10 - 12:58 pmThe Phoenix awakens to inform us that Bill O'Reilly, yes, that Bill O'Reilly, once wrote for the Phoenix and the Real Paper, and that he interviewed both Linda Lovelace and her director in "Deep Throat."
Phoenix gets new editor; to try to figure out how to meld online, radio and print
By adamg - 6/16/10 - 6:30 pmDan Kennedy reports and analyzes. In the short term, it means Lance Gould is out and Carly Carioli is in.
City thinks post-Celtics rioters more likely to toss plastic Phoenix boxes than metal Globe, Herald boxes
By adamg - 6/12/10 - 10:33 amEarlier this week, you may recall, Boston Police asked newspaper distributors to remove their boxes from areas where hopped-up Celtics revelers/mourners might be tempted to use them to put holes in plate-glass windows. The Phoenix reports the Boston DPW apparently thinks plastic boxes for free papers are more of a risk, because it sent crews out to remove them while leaving the potentially more lethal metal Globe and Herald boxes alone:
Can't people throw them through windows, as well? In fact, aren't their metal boxes more fun to throw through windows than our plastic ones?
Big management shakeup at the Phoenix
By adamg - 5/6/10 - 3:09 pmThe Dig breaks the news about firings and stuff on the financial side of the house at the Phoenix.
