He has clearly quoted a lot of material, and so what if they made a mistake. This is not how a blog post should be composed from the contents which are not yours. I say TC is in error again and is just whining.
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#42Yeah, this seems like an unbiased account. I bet there's NO information he left out of this story... Michael Arrington would never shade the truth.
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#43I don't support everything Michael Arrington does, but I love how he's never afraid of a fight. People who think they pwn you just because they have a couple of lawyers on retainer need to have threats like this shoved back in their faces. Whether it's a bluff or not, kudos to Arrington for calling it.
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#44Reprints are contractual matters. Draw one up.
This goes double if you're calling yourself a publisher and you're working with major print entities.
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#45This sounds like someone at Fortune trying to do something industrious and then getting smacked by the higher-ups. I wonder how many good ideas are quashed simply because of policy.
Yeah, I agree, they're trying to jerk Arrington around here. Now fortune may have not had rights to let Arrington post it, but that's their issue most likely, as they misrepresented it, not Arrington The first emails from them clearly are talking about excerpts in their entirety.
Hard to say...they wrote to "post on excerpts", but not "post excerpts". But obviously, what would Mike gain by only posting excerpt of the excerpt? Anyone can do that without asking permission from Fortune, it's just normal blogging practice.
Now when I think about it, Fortune looks even more ridiculous in my eyes. They basically asked TC to blog about their promotional article for free. ;-)
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why? All he had to do was select a few sentences from the excerpts and edit his post. There's greater reward in the long run from acting like an adult, working well with others, and not being a complete douche.
Actually, I think you're wrong on both accounts. Fortune is jerking him around. Calling them on it is not a bad thing, because a working relationship on those terms will likely cost more than it will benefit. Additionally, bloggers (and others in Attention Media) often make more from douchebaggery than from evenhandedness. (And I honestly don't think Arrington is being a douche here.
I don't see how: at least in the emails posted, Fortune never authorizes Arrington to post the full excerpt: they talk about writing a post "on the book excerpts".
He DID publish a book excerpt. Based on the way they kept saying full content, they want to make it sound like he published the entire book or something.
They asked if he would publish excerpts. They sent him excerpts. He published excerpts. He followed the rules and they want to change it and cry "fire" after the fact.
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#48There was a copy write problem with the excerpts of the excerpts. Easy.
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#50"I’d love to chat with you about FORTUNE’s exclusive excerpt of David Kirkpatrick’s book on Facebook"
"note that the story stems from an exclusive excerpt in FORTUNE of David Kirkpatrick’s new book The Facebook Effect."
"once you’ve read the excerpts, please let me know if you choose not to post on one and not the other or both"
The use of the words "exclusive" and "on" seem to make it pretty clear that he was supposed to post ABOUT the excerpts. Their intent may be antiquated, but I think it was clearly communicated.