[So much of the web is built around aggregation — gathering together interesting and useful things from around the Internet and presenting them in new ways to an audience. It's the foundation of blogging and social media. But it's also the subject of much legal debate, particularly among the news organizations whose material is often what's being gathered and presented. Kimberley Isbell of our friends the Citizen Media Law Project has assembled a terrific white paper on the current state of the law surrounding aggregation — what courts have approved, what they haven't, and where the (many) grey areas still remain. This should be required reading for anyone interested in where aggregation and linking are headed.
via niemanlab.org