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Time Magazine May Join Newspapers In Committing Suicide By Charging Online
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| So, say you're a general news magazine that's struggling to remain even
| remotely relevant in an internet era... what do you do? Apparently if you're
| Time, you think about charging.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090529/1910285056.shtml
Once Again, 'Defenders Of Copyright' Found To Have No Problem Copying Others
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| We recently discussed UK law firm, Davenport Lyons, which had been criticized
| widely for running a controversial campaign supposedly to stamp out copyright
| infringement, but seemed a lot more like extortion to many. Basically it
| would contract with software companies to enforce their copyright... and
| would then send out a ton of demand letters (based on questionable evidence)
| requiring cash payments to avoid being sued. Not surprisingly, many people
| just paid up rather than risk getting sued -- even if they were innocent. Of
| course, all the controversy and negative publicity seemed to get back to the
| company. High profile clients like Atari dropped them. Last month, some
| noticed a nearly identical campaign, but this time coming from a different
| company called ACS Law. The only problem? A little investigating suggested
| that the two firms were clearly related -- with ACS using documents created
| by Davenport Lyons.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090529/1928035058.shtml
Recent:
Conference Board of Canada admits that its publicly funded, plagiarized, biased
copyright "research" is junk
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| The Conference Board of Canada, a Canadian think-tank that was caught
| regurgitating a US lobby-group's press materials in a tax-funded report on
| the Digital Economy, has withdrawn its copyright-related reports,
| stating "these reports did not follow the high quality research standards of
| The Conference Board of Canada."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/28/conference-board-of.html
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