The Wrap Issues Cease-and-Desist Letter, Says Newser Is a Bad Aggregator

The decidedly uncivil tiff between news aggregation site The Wrap and, um, news aggregation site Newser has hit legal-threat levels. At issue: In the blogosphere, what are a site’s responsibilities when summarizing and sourcing other outlets’ material?

The Wrap’s Sharon Waxman has published a cease-and-desist letter to Newser CEO Patrick Spain. The letter, drafted by Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan and Aronoff LLP, says, “Newser … is intentionally misleading consumers/users at the expense of The Wrap and at the expense of other unnamed sources,” and “Newser’s conduct violates The Wrap’s rights.”

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