Publishers given a free copyright trap to catch scrapers

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Welcome to new subs from The Guardian, Reuters, more from Australia’s news.com.au, the UK Government’s Content Licensing Agency, NLA Media Access which handles rights for a billion UK articles, Germany’s public service broadcaster Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Hungary’s Central Media Group, America’s News Literacy Project, Poland’s largest news portal onet.pl, and Brazilian media giant Grupo Folha.

Then it’s a long, long way to Ireland’s Tipperary Star. (Sorry Shannon, I just couldn’t resist… ☘️ 🇮🇪 😉)

OK, let’s start on a dirt road intersection on the approach to the Catskill Mountains north of New York in the tiny hamlet of Agloe. It might be a scraper-killer…