Drudge call's it an exclusive when it's not! He's breaking copyright laws?

Lying sack of crap! Is he breaking copyright laws?

Here's the UPI link to a piece written about U.S Casulties:
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031113-074311-4128r

Notice the date and time:
By Mark Benjamin
Published 11/14/2003 2:06 PM

Here's Drudges post and notice it's called an exclusive:
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash1.htm

Notice the date and time:
U.S. casualties from Iraq war top 9,000
By MARK BENJAMIN
UPI
**Exclusive**
Fri Nov 14 2003 14:28:40 ET

So...it's not an exclusive and it was posted after UPI posted it on thier own page.... Is Drudge violating Copyright Laws?

I did a save on the page in case he decides to yank it....

BTW: Here's the guy who wrote the piece email addy in case you want to give him a shout that Drudge is calling his piece an exclusive!
mbenjamin@upi.com

Friday. He kicked off from work early.

He is probably planning to do some partying with Rush. I'm sure he doesn't want to miss that.

Cheers
Drifter

I think UPI was calling it an exclusive, not Drudge.

Assuming Drudge has permission from UPI (for instance, a wire subscription), he can print whatever he wants. "Exclusive" isn't really one of those terms that has any sort of force of law.

Not that I enjoy defending Drudge. If he's printing the UPI stuff without permission, then he's violating copyright law.

Drudge is trying to make it look like it was an exclusive to him when the piece was already out and about...