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    SPH: Yahoo! has been 'free-riding' on the efforts of its editorial staff

    Yahoo! Newsroom – Wed, Dec 28, 2011

    Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) says Yahoo! Southeast Asia has enjoyed a "free-ride" on the efforts of its editorial team and pledged to defend its copyrighted content.

    In its reply and defence to Yahoo!'s counterclaim filed on Wednesday, SPH alleged that the U.S. company had deliberately plagiarised its articles by "substantially reproducing" words and expressions used without permission.

    SPH said it "cannot allow a third party to plagiarise its works without regard to the effort and resources that go into producing its content”.

    The Singapore-based publishing group filed on 18 November a copyright infringement suit against Yahoo! Southeast Asia, citing 23 articles which it alleged the internet company had reproduced from its stable of newspapers without permission. SPH says it reserves the right to cite other instances of infringement in the future.
     
    Yahoo! has maintained that its articles are produced with clear attribution in accordance to industry practices and that published facts from any source are not protected by copyright. In an earlier court filing, Yahoo! had also said it is acting in the public's interest in providing free and timely access to information on current events.

    SPH also denied Yahoo!'s claim that its citizen journalism site STOMP had on at least two known occasions over the last year infringed Yahoo!'s copyrights. SPH argued, among other things, that Yahoo! had engaged in an “abuse of process” in apparently securing the copyrights in question just before filing its defence and counterclaim.

    The landmark case, which has attracted global media attention, pits a traditional media owner against a new media company and is believed to be the first of its kind in Singapore.

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    • Koh
      Koh  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  5 months ago
      SPH should be sued for providing false information to Singaporean. You should be ashame of yourself. Singaporean are fortunate to have other alternative news channel instead of the shit SPH has been dishing out to us for the last 46 years.

      Why does anyone in his/her right mind want to copy news from a source that is a propaganda tool giving only biased news.
      • steffeng
        steffeng 4 months ago
        i don't read SPH stuff cuz it's bullshit. better read new york times or the economist
    • Ren C
      Ren C  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  5 months ago
      When their instruments of political authority are threatened . . .of course SPH will wrangle. Likewise, can the public and citizens sue SPH for causing national cataclysms??
    • Dong
      Dong  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  4 months ago
      Lets get real....Singapore PAP's greatest enemy, is the Internet.
      So one thing is certain. Today you simply cannot run roughshod over the people. Even if the Internet alone cannot overthrow governments today, they can definitely cause the people to hate them and this hate and dissatisfaction will eventually with time overcome the state.
      No matter which way you look at it, states can only function with the support and respect of their people.
      • Cheung
        Cheung 4 months ago
        Yahoo, we rite behind you....
        SPH is PAP mouthpiece. Sue them till brankrupt !
      • Sol
        Sol 4 months ago
        What is of more concern to the discerning Singaporeans is whether there is freedom of the press in Singapore. Reporters without Borders ranked Singapore media 133th in terms of press freedom among 175 countries last year. Can there be press freedom when the mainstream media is tightly controlled by a forbidding organisation like the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH)?
        It is not some kind of benevolent organisation but an omnipotent body formed by the government to oversee the mainstream media, especially the Straits Times, in its dissemination of government propaganda. At the head of SPH is also the spin doctor.
      • FUIH
        FUIH 4 months ago
        Under the circumstances, it will be naive to think that press freedom exists in Singapore. What the mainstream media,especially the Straits Times, dishes out to the public is what the government wants the public to read. Views, opinions or articles inimical to the government, especially from opposition parties, will find it extremely hard to get publicity, esecially in the Straits Times. Even letters unflattering to the government sent to the Forum suffered the same fate.

        F U ...PAP !
    • future singaporeans
      future singaporeans  •  5 months ago
      I can't live without true Yahoo's Forum but I can live without reading SPH biased News!
      Thumbs me up in order to let SPH knows what we really want the bias-less true truth!
      • Joe
        Joe 4 months ago
        get lost then....
    • Jigteam
      Jigteam  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  5 months ago
      How can SPH (just only a dot in the ocean) compare with Yahoo world wide news? Is SPH a big bully in Singapore ?
      • No 2nd Chance
        No 2nd Chance 4 months ago
        Without SPH.........there won't be news in sg.yahoo....................because.............

        SPH said so. :)
    • toon yekloo
      toon yekloo  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  5 months ago
      The only Singapore english news I read is S'pore yahoo. Ask SPH to fly a kite as their CEOs are PAP retired Ministers who drew huge amount of directors' fees and do nothings.
      • No 2nd Chance
        No 2nd Chance 4 months ago
        no wonder ...you are not very knowledgeable..... ) take it easy man!
    • Dr Silly Mask
      Dr Silly Mask  •  4 months ago
      This is the problem when you don't do what is right and you keep lying to people. There will be alternatives to knock you out. If SPH has always been righteous & true, none of this would happen. People would not have prefered Yahoo. Let the people decide and don't always think Sporeans are stupid, they can differentiate what is right & wrong. Yahoo, may the force be with you!
    • KURO
      KURO  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  5 months ago
      I don't like to read any media from SHP.
      Why not we boycott SHP?
    • Kimgold
      Kimgold  •  4 months ago
      SPH = Stupid Pig's Head
    • PAP my foot
      PAP my foot  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  4 months ago
      Boycott SPH by preventing to continue PAP's propaganda! Having said that, stop buying SPH's printed stuff.
    • The Old Man
      The Old Man  •  5 months ago
      154th... Enough said
    • Chrysan
      Chrysan  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  5 months ago
      Heaven is on your side, Yahoo. Countless netizens behind you.
    • wolfglare
      wolfglare  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  5 months ago
      so where does these SPH get their world news from do they have reporter all over the world.....if not...than they are copying from other news paper also
    • Poker
      Poker  •  5 months ago
      sph go to hell
    • Tommyz
      Tommyz  •  4 months ago
      SPH is a lost cause, no one reads it and it should be called the " PAP times"
    • A Yahoo! User  •  5 months ago
      HUH .... WHAT ?????????
      "WORDS AND EXPRESSION" HAVE COPYRIGHTS ???
      Gosh ... if more than one person study the same English language,
      have same standard of qualification and write the same words with
      same expression to the same story, its copyright ??
      Its more like "monopolising" or "protectionism" ????
      Something like the nation wealth in general to benefits ALL its
      people but .... ONLY Exclusive to the "FEW".
      IS THE GOVT COPYRIGHTED OUR CPF MONEY TOO ??????
      So, how do one substitue or use an alternative word and/or expression ??
      Example, ... S E X ? Got to use, ...F@#$%& ??
    • WatAJoke
      WatAJoke  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  5 months ago
      Singapore Press Holdings is shit! They are only capable of reporting propaganda of biased news towards the Government! PUI! _l_
    • BB See
      BB See  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  4 months ago
      What PAP cannot do is done through their proxy. After all Lee Boon Yang is sitting there. SPH have a leash on it's neck and we know who is holding this dog. Wrong to call it a dog because dogs can bite. this is brainless pig. they can compete with Pravda and People's Daily.
    • Beeg Koh Nek
      Beeg Koh Nek  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  5 months ago
      SPH is the Apes and Monkeys channel! They have always disillusion us all this while and that's why they're feeling the threat! More & more netizens are going online and refer to Yahoo for daily feed. SPH not only losing money but also the trust from Singaporean!
    • Pumpkin
      Pumpkin  •  Singapore, Central Singapore  •  4 months ago
      Wow! Trying to control the media? Or trying to brainwash the commoners?
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