• Daily Finance, Wednesday, July 8, 2009 10:11 PM

A push to tweak existing copyright laws to help newspapers charge for their content continues to gain currency. Jason Klein, president and CEO of the National Newspaper Network, says he supports a rethinking of the current copyright regime, although he stops short of endorsing any particular blueprint for accomplishing it.

A proposal has recently been put forth by brothers David and Daniel Marburger, a First Amendment lawyer and an economics professor, to limit the ability of "parasitic aggregators" to summarize and link to news stories.

"Now other entities can rewrite stories very quickly," thanks to the Internet, but all the copyright laws "were written before the Internet emerged," says Klein. "This is a very good time to revisit the copyright protection that newspapers get for original journalism." The National Newspaper Network is a marketing partnership between the Newspaper Association of America and newspaper publishers including The New York Times Co., Hearst, Tribune, MediaNews Group and Gannett.

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