Casey at the office pointed out this intriguing iPhone 3G S Commercial:
Notice how the new iPhone lets you copy and paste New York Times articles into emails? Doesn’t that send up some HUGE RED FLAGS on anyone’s copyright-infringement-meter? (Admittedly, I may be the only one who has this extremely nerdy meter). New York Times articles are copyrighted. Plus, they are embedded with some weird techie thing that I don’t fully understand which tracks the number of hits the article/website gets and reports it to their advertisers so they can make some money in order to, yknow, survive. Questions of the day: (1) does copy and paste in an email infringe their copyright? (2) Will this iPhone feature hurt the New York Times’ biggest source of revenue? (3) If so, why would Apple use the New York Times as the example in their ad (just to throw the failing economy and disintegrating IP rights in their face)?
