Wednesday, January 07, 2009

OutGayLife website allegedly stealing news content from gay pubs, blogs, mainstream press

Matt Comer at InterstateQ has written an excellent investigative piece called OutGayLife website network allegedly stealing news content from gay pubs, blogs, mainstream press.

Matt writes:

Browsing the network’s webpages, InterstateQ.com found at least 17 separate cases of possible infringement on the copyrights of LGBT publications, blogs and mainstream publications. The possibly illegally posted material included at least seven articles from the Asheville, N.C.-based gay newspaper Stereotypd (formerly, Out in Asheville) and its gay news blog. Other instances of possible copyright infringement included republished content from The Advocate, the nation’s premier LGBT news-magazine; an op-ed from the blog of former Washington Blade editor Chris Crain; a blog post by The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan; a blog post from New America Media, a coalition of over 2,000 ethnic news organizations; and several blog posts from BoxTurtleBulletin.com, a premier LGBT blog researching the anti-gay and ex-gay right. READ MORE