tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post1040110332239593372..comments2023-10-06T10:10:06.982-04:00Comments on La Russophobe: The Economist Rips that Rat Bastard Dimitri Simes a New OneLa Russophobehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-72441646316370044342007-12-21T12:46:00.000-05:002007-12-21T12:46:00.000-05:00From a regular reader:On 4) Kim you are right on a...From a regular reader:<BR/><BR/>On 4) Kim you are right on all counts. Given the fact that LR is a central resource I would be scared to pieces if you only posted links. The stuff might well be gone for good and we wouldn't notice it until it was too late. And if it's a busy day we don't click links. Just tell ourselves we will come back later if there's time.... There usually isn't. <BR/><BR/>As far as the spirit of copyright is concerned, i also agree. Copyright protects the material for being misquoted (you don't do this) and from the copyright holder being deprived of revenue which they might otherwise earn. This doesn't apply in your situation either. <BR/><BR/>Which would make objections just sniffy but otherwise pointless.<BR/><BR/>Actually a link to a full article sometimes encourages me to visit the originator's site anyway. <BR/><BR/>Edward. I enjoy your stuff and it is a pleasure to read something that it intelligently written on russia and eastern europe. That is "expert" enough for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-65703813657715206582007-12-21T06:04:00.000-05:002007-12-21T06:04:00.000-05:00Hi Edward!(1) You are too modest!(2) Has Akrady go...Hi Edward!<BR/><BR/>(1) You are too modest!<BR/><BR/>(2) Has Akrady got his own blog? I'd love to publicize it if he does, if not you should encourage him to make one! We need all the help we can get! Did Arkady write the first one? Or is that a secret?<BR/><BR/>(3) We meant "continue" intellectually, not temporally.<BR/><BR/>(4) We LIVE for sniffy letters, they show people notice and fear us! We could certainly post links instead, but the fact is that (a) most people won't click a link, so most people would miss the content and (b) what if the content suddenly "disappears" at the source, and (c) the only reason reposting could be a problem for the Economist is if people might use a search engine and find their content here before finding it there. As if! Otherwise, we're just giving them free advertising (which we have none of ourselves, hence we generate absolutely no revenue from any content we publish).<BR/><BR/>-- KimLa Russophobehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05672264388217953086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25230932.post-28277261543125123772007-12-20T22:22:00.000-05:002007-12-20T22:22:00.000-05:00Hi KimThanks for flagging up these posts. I should...Hi Kim<BR/><BR/>Thanks for flagging up these posts. I should point out that I am not the Economist's "Russia expert". That title would go to our terrific Moscow bureau chief Arkady Ostrovsky. <BR/><BR/>Secondly, the second article doesn't "continue the discussion"; in fact they are successive weeks editions of the online europe.view column. <BR/><BR/>I have no personal objection to you reprinting the Economist's articles, but at some stage you may get a sniffy letter from our rights and syndications department who are tasked with making sure that the shareholders get the benefit of the intellectual property that we journalists create. I wonder if it might be advisable to post just a short extract with a link to the whole article on the economist.com site.<BR/><BR/><BR/>best regards<BR/><BR/>EdwardEdward Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11369936559712607693noreply@blogger.com