To the Free Internet Press Editor:

I am an Associate General Counsel for The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., publisher of BusinessWeek Magazine.  We recently discovered that your site has been copying and posting the following articles from BusinessWeek without authorization:  

“Sovereign Wealth Funds Taste Bitter Losses” at http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=19462, and

“The Next Subprime Crisis Looms - FHA-Backed Loans” at http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=19233

In addition, another BusinessWeek article entitled “Bush Plan Provokes Mexico” at http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=6905  -- was copied and is contained in your site’s archives, which, according to your site, are accessible in return for payment of a donation.  This posting and distribution is similarly without permission from McGraw-Hill. 

This copying, posting and distribution of these BusinessWeek articles, copyright in which is owned by McGraw-Hill, clearly infringes McGraw-Hill’s copyright and other intellectual property rights.  Note that your site claims that at least two of these BusinessWeek articles were copied from the Spiegel Online web site at www.spiegel.de, but as noted on that web site, these articles were posted on Spiegel Online with permission from BusinessWeek.  Also as noted on the Spiegel Online web site, any further copying and posting of these articles by others would require authorization, which was not obtained by your site.  Please immediately remove these unauthorized postings of the BusinessWeek articles, as well as any further BusinessWeek articles posted and being distributed on your site without authorization.  Please confirm that all these postings have been removed.  This is written without prejudice to any rights of McGraw-Hill, all of which are reserved. 

Sincerely,

Suzanne L. Telsey

Suzanne L. Telsey

Associate General Counsel

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

1221 Avenue of the Americas, 48th Fl.

New York, NY 10020

Phone:  212-512-2619

Fax:  212-512-6769