Taking on Bill Keller

My colleague at the Boston Phoenix, Carly Carioli, lights into New York Times columnist Bill Keller over copyright law and an apparent Times violation of the Phoenix's copyright. It's worth reading the whole thing, but here's a wee taste:

Bill Keller: I heard you like copyright. You wrote one provocative print column about it on Sunday, one blistering blog followup on Monday, and pointed to a third Times op-ed piece from Sunday (headline: "Perpetual War: Digital Pirates amd Creators") that says basically the same thing. 

So here's an interesting data point: on Saturday, the New York Times blatantly and willfully violated the copyright of another publisher -- our publisher, actually. On the Times op-ed (web) page. And in a blog follow-up to that op-ed column. 

More on that in a second. But before we get our lawyers involved, and for the benefit of everyone else reading this, let's go back and start with the Times's feelings on copyright.