Reuters blogger Felix Salmon doesn’t like the new warning that appears when someone copies text from a Financial Times article to use on a blog or other online venue.
“It’s pretty clear that the FT doesn’t want people like me linking to them. Their Money Supply blog, for instance, after disappearing behind the paywall in June, linked to me this morning. But I don’t know what they said, because even when I paste the headline (‘Would €90bn be enough for Ireland?’) into Google and click on the Google link — something which works with most FT stories — I still run into that paywall.
“Meanwhile, the FT’s terms and conditions page gives me very strict instructions on exactly what I must — yes, they use the word ‘must’ — do if I want to link to their stories.”
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