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A copyright black hole swallows our culture
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| Librarians call it the 20th-century black hole. The overwhelming force is not gravity
| but copyright law, sucking our collective culture into a vortex from which it can never
| escape.
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6811a9d4-9b0f-11de-a3a1-00144feabdc0,Authorised=false.html?_i_location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms%2Fs%2F0%2F6811a9d4-9b0f-11de-a3a1-00144feabdc0.html%3Fnclick_check%3D1&_i_referer=&nclick_check=1
Google Fights Book Backlash
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| Google Inc. said Thursday it would allow rivals to sell access to the digital copies of
| millions of out-of-print books it has amassed, but the move did little to appease
| critics of the Internet giant's digital book plans.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125261061059900493.html
Recent:
Copyright law threatening
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| On Dec. 13, 1981, Poland's communist government declared martial law to put
| down the Solidarity movement. Telephone lines went silent across the country,
| and once service was restored, each time anyone picked up the telephone they
| were greeted with a voice: "Rozmowa Kontrolowana."
|
| "This conversation is being monitored."
|
| Since telephone service was still a rare privilege in a country where the
| political establishment feared citizen-to-citizen communication, some could
| shrug their shoulders because it did not directly apply to them. When, days
| later, the government set up regional censorship offices to read everyone's
| mail, shrugging one's shoulders ceased to be an option.
|
| Not quite 30 years have passed, and tales like these remain common, from the
| Egyptian government's efforts to register and track users at Internet cafes,
| to Iranian government agents showing up on Twitter this spring to intimidate
| protesters.
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http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Copyright+threatening/1969025/story.html
Newspapers' Plan For Survival: Charge Money, Beat Up On Craigslist And Keep
Repeating To Ourselves That We're Needed
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| There's been plenty of coverage about the potentially antitrust-violating
| meeting of newspaper execs in Chicago recently, and late last week reports
| came out about some of the recommendations put forth by the American Press
| Institute at that meeting. The API apparently handed out two whitepapers,
| both of which are amusing, only in that someone actually thinks they're
| useful. The first was effectively saying: "Craigslist really sucks, so let's
| try to beat up on Craigslist."
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090608/1724305171.shtml
Would Joint Action on Online Pricing Violate Antitrust Laws?
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| The under-the-radar meeting hosted by the Newspaper Association of America
| (NAA) Thursday brought together top newspaper executives to discuss various
| issues, including the much-debated topic of charging for online content.
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| Participants aren't commenting specifically on their discussions, but the
| summit raises the question: Can newspapers collectively decide to put content
| behind a pay wall? And if they did, would that violate antitrust laws?
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http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=
1003977926
Shhhh. Newspaper Publishers Are Quietly Holding a Very, Very Important Conclave
Today. Will You Soon Be Paying for Online Content?
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| Here's a story the newspaper industry's upper echelon apparently kept from
| its anxious newsrooms: A discreet Thursday meeting in Chicago about their
| future.
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| "Models to Monetize Content" is the subject of a gathering at a hotel which
| is actually located in drab and sterile suburban Rosemont, Illinois; slabs of
| concrete, exhibition halls and mostly chain restaurants, whose prime reason
| for being is O'Hare International Airport. It's perfect for quickie,
| in-and-out conclaves.
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http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/james_warren/2009/05/shhhh_newspaper_publi
shers_are_quietly_holding_a_very_very_important_conclave_today_will_you_soon_be.
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Newspapers Gather In Secret (With An Antitrust Lawyer) To Collude Over Paywalls
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090528/1832395048.shtml
San Jose Mercury News: No One Reads Us Any More, So Let's Start Charging
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| Media News, the current owner of the Merc, has announced that it's now going
| to start charging for online access to the paper, which seems like a move
| destined to fail dismally (and quickly).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090517/2210564914.shtml
Sony Pictures CEO: Nothing Good Has Come From The Internet
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| Perhaps part of the problem is the execs who work under him. Mathew Ingram
| points out that at a recent panel discussion the CEO of Sony Pictures,
| Michael Lynton, said: "I'm a guy who doesn't see anything good having come
| from the internet. Period."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090515/1301064900.shtml
Lawyers: To Save Newspapers, Let's Destroy Pretty Much Everything Else Good
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| That would be a massive reinterpretation of copyright law, and would
| effectively destroy much of what makes the internet useful. This proposal
| would make it illegal to index the web. It would outlaw search engines. Yes,
| for the sake of saving some outdated newspaper businesses, these lawyers wish
| to make it so that before a search engine can index any website, it needs to
| negotiate permission. This would kill the internet.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090517/0236594905.shtml
Why Are AGs Targeting Craigslist Rather Than Newspapers Or Other Websites?
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| With Craigslist caving on how it manages its "adult" ads, we've noted that
| some politicians are still angry, despite having been a part of the group
| that bought into the agreement Craigslist made with them six months ago.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090517/1225254907.shtml
Why Are Newspapers Exploiting The People They Cover?
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| When we recently wrote about yet another journalist complaining about how
| Google exploits their content, someone in the comments made a really salient
| point that should get wider exposure. If you go by the journalist's own
| logic, then the truth is that they are exploiting the newsmakers they cover.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090417/1544524544.shtml
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