The main point is probably the disproportionate claims of damages, especially given that in this case there really are no damages at all - if anything the attribution and link to the original benefited the original content creator.
Though the copyright holder is in my opinion entitled to ask the blogger to remove the content, the claims of damages are just laughable and should be thrown out.
In any case I agree that one should simply not link to or quote articles from such publishers - it's too risky you might get sued.
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Re: fair use
The main point is probably the disproportionate claims of damages, especially given that in this case there really are no damages at all - if anything the attribution and link to the original benefited the original content creator.
Though the copyright holder is in my opinion entitled to ask the blogger to remove the content, the claims of damages are just laughable and should be thrown out.
In any case I agree that one should simply not link to or quote articles from such publishers - it's too risky you might get sued.