Le Québécois, a hard-line sovereignist website, says it will no longer allow visitors to post articles from La Presse, a federalist newspaper, in its forums.
No, it’s not because its editors find articles by La Presse writers such as André Pratte, Alain Dubuc et Vincent Marissal ”insipides et propagandistes.”
The tussle is over copyright issues, or so La Presse warned Le Québécois in a lawyer’s letter, Le Québécois says.
Many (most?) newspapers now accept that at least some of their copyrighted material will end up illegally used online.
Le Québécois says it’s the only website targeted by La Presse, and complains it’s being singled out because it regularly targets the newspaper. If you want to see how vitriolic Le Québécois gets when it comes to La Presse, read its response to La Presse’s lawyer’s letter.
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