Christiaan Briggs wrote:
Maybe some of you would like to respond to this
interesting question,
are press releases copyrighted?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:News_release
Press releases are clearly copyrighted. An argument could be made
about this in court, but I have no interest *at all* in making such an
argument. On Wikinews and elsewhere, we can make use of a press
release as factual information, but it would be absurd for us to just
publish them or base stories directly on them, license or no license.
Our journalistic standards should be higher than that of lazy
reporters who simply regurgitate whatever a company tells them.
--Jimbo