I'm no lawyer and if i was I'd do the right thing for humanity and shoot myself, but it seems to me this whole issue is all about capitalism gone off the rails.

Greed.

Calling news stories intellectual properties is asinine.

It seems strange that anyone could even entertain the idea that copying and pasting news stories that have been posted to the internet is theft of intellectual properties. If they didn't want people to share it, they should keep it to themselves.