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Still confused about the Associated Press’s announcement last week about a new content tagging system that’s supposed to provide rights information? I am — but the AP’s apparently not talking to anyone further about it. “For the moment, we’re done,” said AP spokesperson Paul Colford. “We’ve spoken to innumerable people,” he said, and now the AP [...]
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A European Court has found quoting snippets of work to be a copyright violation. AP’s CEO Tom Curley suggested again that even “minimal” use of a news article might require a licensing agreement. Both got me thinking. What if somone files a lawsuit against the AP for its reporters violating copyright by using Google or [...]
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Gosh, just as the Associated Press announces that it’s going to follow a new meta tagging scheme to protect its content, it continues to show no clue about how to monetize its own traffic much less regulate it. Stories continue to die, just as they have when I covered the issue a year ago. Back in [...]
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US Appellate Court justice Richard Posner proposes doing something with copyright law that I can’t tell you about, if the law he proposes actually passed. I may have said too much already. I’d like to quote exactly what he said, the key part in bold, which was: Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials [...]
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Wall Street Journal publisher Les Hinton has called Google a “vampire” that has a taste for sucking the blood out of newspapers. I’d do a long dissection of his mistaken analogy, but I’ve already done that before: Google’s Love For Newspapers & How Little They Appreciate It. Why do we continue to hear such tiresome rhetoric? [...]
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At the end of May, I was enjoying a nice Sunday afternoon reading my paper, trying not to think about work, when I came across Tim Rutten’s column, “How the Obama administration can save newspapers.” And I sighed, because apparently newspapers need a license to collude to solve their “search engine” problem. If they can’t [...]
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The public relations war of newspapers against both Google and blogs shows no signs of ebbing. Today, we get a proposal that newspapers deserve special laws to protect them. I’ll come back to that, but I wanted to float the idea that perhaps it’s time for an Associated Blogs to take on the Associated Press. The [...]
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The newspaper bailout has arrived, or so the headlines are going in the wake of Washington State granting a 40% tax break to newspapers. That got me thinking — why just newspapers? If the intent was to promote journalism, shouldn’t any outlet that publishes journalism have gotten the break? In particular, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer stopped printing [...]
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As the rhetoric over how Google “rips-off” newspapers, magazines and other print publishers continues, a thought occurred to me this weekend. Perhaps Google should charge publications whose reporters tap into the service to research their stories? Perhaps that might underscore, especially for the Associated Press, the absurdity of trying to charge [...]
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The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today — and sincere congrats to the hard-working journalists who’ve won those highest of prizes. But with no online-only publications winning — in the first year they were eligible to enter — I wonder if it’s time for an online-only version of the Pulitzers to be offered. I was struck hard [...]
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