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Online Journalism Ethics: The Link and Attribution Game

By Eric Lipman

Yesterday, Judge Carton ruled on the case of the woman suing Google on the theory that relying on Google Maps walking directions absolves users of all responsibility to employ their own senses, such as sight, hearing, and common. (BTW, since we're allowed to appoint ourselves to the bench around here, Judge Carton's ruling granting Google's future motion to dismiss is AFFIRMED.) There's a sidebar to this story that I, as a blogger, thought should get a little more play. Danny Sullivan (no, not the race car driver Danny Sullivan featured in my last post) of Search Engine Land claims to have had the original scoop on the Rosenberg v. Google story. His initial post on the lawsuit went up at 5:36 p.m. last Friday, May 28. Having done an unscientific, nonexhaustive search (using Google, perhaps ironically), his claims seem to hold water; I was unable to find the story posted anywhere else on the Web earlier than that. But Sullivan believes the "mainstream media" stole his story, without proper attribution (a position to which I was alerted by a comment on the WSJ Law Blog's post about the suit, which does not cite or link to Sullivan). That much funnier,...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).