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Earlier the year, the FTC announced it would be holding a two day workshop in Washington DC on Dec. 1 & 2 called “How Will Journalism Survive The Internet Age” to explore issues such as fair use, aggregator impact on journalism and related issues. The agenda has now been posted, with remarks from heavy-hitter speakers such [...]

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I’d thought I’d heard it all in the debate over Google and newspapers, but yesterday Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson took it up a notch. He accused Google of making people slutty. If we’re using sexual metaphors now, here’s another one. Why doesn’t the Wall Street Journal and News Corporation in general put [...]

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The Microsoft-Yahoo search deal was big news this past week, and I took plenty of press calls about it, including from the AP. But to quote what I told the AP, I have to pay them $17.50. Here’s the article, where I’m quoted as saying: It really hard to tell whether (Bartz) just thinks Yahoo [...]

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Free! Why is it when it comes to the internet and media, free is becoming a four-letter word online while offline, free’s simply the way business has been done? Below, some thoughts on free online versus offline plus the difficulty of “licensing” newspaper content. Radio stations play music all day long, for free. Just giving [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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