links for 2006-10-21

The organisation that won a Belgian ruling against Google and is negotiating with Microsoft’s MSN will take action against Yahoo! as soon as it has the time, its head has said.

The Belgian Google ruling “struck at the heart of the Web 2.0 assumption that it’s perfectly all right to profit from another company’s content without permission and without payment.”

Journalism student Will Dean examines the claim that the reason the Express sacked its trainees was that Northern & Shell wants to concentrate on its online strategy.

The £35m annual cost of FoI provides public oversight of the myriad “bungling, spendthrift projects” that waste far more public money, says Heather Brooke.

Kevin Anderson: is “really uncomfortable with this obsession with this almost divine right that some journalists feel in setting the agenda and determining what is important”

Even the most feted of journalism awards have their problems, it seems. Four papers increasingly dominate America’s top journalism gongs.

Lord Campbell-Savours used Parliamentary privilege to name a woman claiming to be rape victim. But that would be illegal for anyone else to report…

A response to Charles Cooper: “What if Google’s indexing actually makes a work more valuable, as appears to be the case? Does that still count as theft and immoral activity Charles?”

This week, there have been a libel case and a copyright case in which claimants have pursued individual users of community web sites rather than the sites’ publishers.