Re: Reuters = Aljazeera?

[Sandman]

"ScottW" > wrote:

> What am I missing?

A brain.

[Robert Morein]

"ScottW" > wrote in message
m...
> This is a Reuters release.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2t375
>
> This is from Aljazeera.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/2pyms
>
> Obviously the Aljazeera version is a slightly edited version of the
> Reuters release. I find no credit to Reuters on the Aljazeera release
> and it only trails the Reuters release by less than a half hour on the
> wire anyway.
> What am I missing?
>
> ScottW

It means they bought it from a freelancer, or Reuters sold it to them.
Obviously, the "news" cannot be copyrighted, only the expression.
So they sold the intellectual property of the written article.