SITD readers will remember the conversation about copyright I had with photographer Nina Berman a couple weeks ago.

The issue crops up again. The New York Times reports that two websites posted a PDF of the entire Rolling Stone article on General McChrystal (they’d snagged an advance copy) before the article was even posted on RollingStone.com.

Both companies said that a frenzy involving a significant national issue was under way and that because Rolling Stone itself did not post the article on its site, they took matters into their own hands. Each said that when Rolling Stone protested, it was taken down…

A couple of agressive bloggers?

Nope. Politico.com and Time.com….