Gatehouse Media Massachusetts I, Inc. v. The New York Times Co.
On December 22, 2008, GateHouse Media sued the New York Times, alleging that the "hyper-local" news aggregation pages on the New York Times-owned site Boston.com infringed its copyright and trademark rights. At the judge's order, the case proceeded on an extraordinarily expedited basis, with a bench trial set to begin on January 26, 2009. On the day prior to the start of trial, the parties settled.
The NYT agreed to remove all links created using GateHouse RSS feeds, and to refrain from using such feeds to create links to GateHouse content so long as GateHouse implemented commercially reasonable technological measures intended to prevent use such use.
The NYT did not agree to cease linking to GateHouse stories by other means (e.g. by typing in link text manually).
Documents
- January 26, 2009 Order of Dismissal[PDF, 19.23 KB]
- January 25, 2009 Settlement Agreement (Letter Agreement)[PDF, 142.15 KB]
- January 22, 2009 Amended Complaint[PDF, 163.17 KB]
- January 20, 2009 Scheduling Order[PDF, 37.65 KB]
- January 16, 2009 Answer and Counterclaims[PDF, 88.25 KB]
- January 12, 2009 Letter from Plaintiff's counsel to Defendant's counsel[PDF, 183.52 KB]
- January 9, 2009 Letter from Defendant's counsel to Plaintiff's counsel[PDF, 126.45 KB]
- December 22, 2008 Complaint[PDF, 2.24 MB]
Deeplinks Posts
- January 26, 2009 GateHouse and the New York Times Settle
- January 23, 2009 GateHouse v. New York Times: Lawsuit Attacks Boston.com News Aggregation Site
