Each individual publisher most probably has their own rules, but also
(probably) lacks the resources to police it.
I know that Google has started paying to re-publish from some publishers.
bp
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On 3/16/2025 11:22 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
Much of what I want to read now requires a subscription, and I have
given up and subscribed to a few paywalled sites and some Substacks.
Typically these let you read everything on their website and also
receive email newsletters.
What is the etiquette around sharing such content? Some let you send
someone a free one month subscription, but that seems like selling
subscriptions to your friends. If I just send a link to an article, I
assume they will hit the paywall. In some cases you can cut and paste
from the HTML or PDF but that’s a bit tedious and probably frowned upon.
Should I just assume if other people want to see the content they will
have their own subscriptions? Google News isn’t shy about linking to
paywalled articles, that happens to me about half the time I click on
a link, and I’m sorry, I’m not going to subscribe to Fortune or
Barrons or WSJ or Rolling Stone or Mother Jones just to read the
occasional article that appears in a news feed.
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