Protecting old media, old school… an idea from the Becker Posner Blog:
Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder’s consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.
Posner is an extremely influential American jurist with a intimidating pile of publications to his name. But that does not mean he is always right… Using copyright to create protectionism is the opposite of creating and sustaining free markets.