Rupert Murdoch vows to challenge fair use

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch sat down with Australia’s Sky News to discuss the future of internet publishing. Frustrated with the free movement of information on the web, Murdoch criticized news outlets, including the BBC, stating, “if you look at them, most of their stuff is stolen from the newspapers now, and we’ll be suing them for copyright.”

In a reference to sites which gather, link and post excerpts of news headlines, Murdoch states, “there’s a doctrine called fair use — which we believe can challenged in the courts and be barred altogether.” He later went on to applaud Google for its yielding to DMCA takedown notices stating, “they don’t even argue — one telephone call and they take it off.”

Extended interview below.