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If they are copying and pasting news articles on their site, that's a pretty straightforward copyright case I would think.

In the US at least this should be pretty well covered by the case law on news aggregators.

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It was the Yomiuri Shimbun, which boasts the world's largest circulation, that established the mass reproduction of not just article bodies, but even headlines, as a violation of copyright.

Thanks, I was aware of the distinction between article bodies and headlines for news aggregators, but I was not aware of Yomiuri Shimbun's role

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