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Toronto Star found that increasingly, publishers are fielding regular requests from anxious and embarrassed readers to "unpublish" information, sometimes months or years after it first appeared online.

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Miller-McCune.com Melinda Burns 2010

"In a recent survey of 110 news organizations, the Toronto Star found that increasingly, publishers are fielding regular requests from anxious and embarrassed readers to" unpublish "information, sometimes months or years after it first appeared online."

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Kathy English, the Star's public editor, the author of the report, and the person who handles reader requests to "unpublish," in consultation with the Star's lawyers and senior editors.

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Miller-McCune.com Melinda Burns 2010

Toronto Star found that increasingly, publishers are fielding regular requests from anxious and embarrassed readers to "unpublish" information, sometimes months or years after it first appeared online.

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Miller-McCune.com Melinda Burns 2010

Kathy English, the Star's public editor, the author of the report, and the person who handles reader requests to "unpublish," in consultation with the Star's lawyers and senior editors.

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Miller-McCune.com Melinda Burns 2010

I would like to see discussion on that larger question, but I felt that I was getting confused over what we were talking about. with opensource being so common, the probability that _someone_ will publish some code under an opensource license when they don't have the right to is high. once such code is out there with the wrong license terms on it, there is not really any way to 'unpublish' it, there will always be stray copies around with the incorrect license attached, and people will stumble across them and use them, further spreading the problem it would be a good thing if we had some idea of how this could be dealt with _prior_ to someone ending up in court.

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More important, just because it is technically possible to unpublish a digital story in a way that was never possible in the ink-on-paper world does not make it right to do so.

Is it ever ok to unpublish a story? 2010

In the end, Tenore said, the issue may be “less about whether to publish or unpublish and more about the alternatives.”

A need for "Best Practices" on "unpublishing" Web content 2010

As online commenter “Curmudgeon10” correctly observed in response to my column, “in the Internet age, it is virtually impossible to unpublish.”

A need for "Best Practices" on "unpublishing" Web content 2010

The web makes such searches infinitely easier, of course, and the truth is that we, or any web site, could unpublish a story in a matter of seconds.

Is it ever ok to unpublish a story? 2010