Techdirt: New York Times lawyers shut down former staffer’s Tumblr
March 8th, 2011Posted by Sarah Marshall in Editors' pick, Legal, Photography, Social media and blogging
Techdirt has laid into the New York Times for sending its laywers to shut down a Tumblr blog belonging to former staffer Jonathan Paul. Paul was using the account to repost some of the NYT’s “beautiful and unexpected imagery”, with links.
Paul notes that the blog actually had a decent following within the NYT, and his former colleagues had encouraged the project and helped promote it as well, fully realizing that it was helping their own work get more attention and driving more traffic to the NYT. And then the lawyers stepped in.
Full post on Techdirt at this link
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