Our project looks at intellectual property issues in the realm of online journalism, along the lines of Jonathan Stray’s recent study. Using Google News, we tracked two distinct stories to see how much of the news is being originally researched and reported. Watching the stories unfold over time allowed us to see which outlets add original content to a given story, which credit their sources, and how they do so. We used our data to draw some insights about the proper copyright model for online news.
Check out our data here.
Our graphic analysis of the data, our written report, and a timeline of major events in the history of intellectual property issues in journalism, are attached.
-Grace Kim and Dennis Howe
Yale Law Tech 