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Stop punishing fans and start selling to them
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| The goal of any business, generally, is to
| be profitable. The simplest equation for a
| successful business is to sell something for
| more than it cost you to produce. The more
| of that you can do, the more successful you
| are. However, markets change all the time
| and a strong business responds to that
| change to maximize its long term profits.
|
| But when it comes to the entertainment
| industry there's an odd dynamic at work. It
| seems more important to punish those
| involved in the changing market, rather than
| focus on maximizing profit. Yet it does no
| good to punish people who will never buy if
| it doesn't do anything to increase actual
| revenue.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/6501717/Stop-punishing-fans-and-start-selling-to-them.html
Murdoch admits delays on paywall scheme
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| Rupert Murdoch has confirmed that his
| company is unlikely to hit its June deadline
| for putting up paywalls around its newspaper
| websites.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/05/murdoch_delay_charging/
Star Wars creator in battle over film replicas
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| Now Lucasfilm has brought an action in the
| Court of Appeal to try to prove that the
| Stormtrooper suits are sculptures and
| therefore works of art covered by the
| Copyright, Designs and Patents Act.
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http://www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifestyle/2009/11/03/star-wars-creator-in-battle-over-film-replicas-91466-25083772/
Pirate Party Gets Second Seat in European Parliament
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| With the Lisbon Treaty being signed by all
| European Union member states, the Pirate
| Party has gained another seat in the
| European Parliament. The second Pirate Party
| seat will be occupied by the 22 year old
| Amelia Andersdotter, who will become the
| youngest Member of the European Parliament.
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http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-gets-second-seat-in-european-parliament-091104/
Recent:
Washington Post Calls For Federal Funding Of Newspapers?
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| I wonder how Watergate would have turned out
| if the Washington Post was relying on Nixon
| for cash... The editorial piece claims that
| no one is "filling the gap" left by fewer
| newspaper reporters, but presents no evidence
| whatsoever to support that. The market is
| changing, absolutely, but we're seeing all
| sorts of new, unique and innovative ways of
| covering the news -- often allowing much
| greater coverage than in the past.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091030/1118206742.shtml
The AP and News Corp DEMAND To Be Paid For Their Content
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| Really? The AP's response to people
| linking to and discussing AP articles is
| to go after sites for money? I am waiting
| to see which news organization will be the
| first to go after Twitter for payment for
| news tweets. Instead of focusing on how to
| demand payment for the distribution of an
| infinite good, news organizations should
| recognize the new opportunities afforded
| by the free distribution of their content
| and focus on how to build a business off
| their scarce goods.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091009/1158486478.shtml
Jimmy Leach: Murdoch will pay for the end of free news
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| Rupert Murdoch has thrown down the
| gauntlet to search engines with his threat
| to charge the likes of Google for
| presenting his newspapersâ content in
| search results.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/jimmy-leach-murdoch-will-pay-for-the-end-of-free-news-1800326.html?source=cmailer
âThe Economistâ switches to online subscription mode
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| It tends to be difficult to generate
| income both from free and subscription-
| based content. The reason for that is the
| abundance of information online. So it is
| likely that other free media services will
| even further expand their importance as
| information sources and marginalise
| traditional journalistic content
| providers. It is a fatal process of
| structural change where we still donât
| know if the traditional media online would
| be a sustainable model.
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http://arebentisch.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/the-economist-switches-to-online-subscription-mode/
Reuters using Drupal
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| Anyone who reads the news knows that Reuters is a major news agency; in
| fact, it is the world's largest international multimedia news agency.
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http://buytaert.net/reuters-using-drupal
Tall Pay Walls May Limit Community Access to Information
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| A number of commentators, led by blogger Alan Mutter, have noted lately that
| the paid online content bandwagon seems to be stalling into a lot of talk and
| not much action. But what if newspapers rally and act in unison to make much
| of what they offer online available only to those who pay?
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http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=123&aid=168842
Newspapers go 'Open Core' to survive
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| The Financial Times, for example, is looking for ways to balance free use of
| its news assets while charging for premium content through micropayments (for
| individual articles) and subscriptions. The idea is to give away the core of
| its product to casual readers and charge for more "professional" interest.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10311819-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Newspapersâ Original Sin: Not failing to charge but failing to innovate
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| Our Original Sin was failing to see beyond our original business model, not
| failing to force more of it on the new opportunity.
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http://stevebuttry.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/newspapers-original-sin-not-failing-to-charge-but-failing-to-innovate/
Oh Look, Bloggers Can Do Investigative Reporting Too
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| In the latest example, sent in by Chris, a blogger in Florida has apparently
| been doing an excellent job breaking a number of key stories concerning a
| recent murder. Even the local police say they're now seriously investigating
| leads brought to their attention by this guy's reporting -- even as the local
| mainstream press continued to argue against what the guy was reporting.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090817/0042285893.shtml
AP Preparing New Copyright Management System
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| The new system will register key identifying information about each piece of
| content that AP distributes as well as the terms of use of that content into
| a storage database. It also will employ a built-in "beacon" to notify AP and
| other publishers about how the content is used.
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/AP-Preparing-New-Copyright-Management-System-383361/
DRM for news? Inside the AP's plan to "wrap" its content
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| The Associated Press, reeling from the newspaper apocalypse, has a new plan
| to "wrap" and "protect" its content though a "digital permissions framework.
| But there's (way) less here than meets the eye.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/drm-for-news-inside-the-aps-plan-to-wrap-its-content.ars
Permission Culture: Want To Quote A Single Sentence In A Book? Pay Up!
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| Yes, it's become so impossible to quote a single short sentence, that it's
| just not worth doing at all. Welcome to permission society. Some copyright
| system believers may claim that this is just the market at work, but it
| certainly seems a lot more like an undue restriction on freedom of expression
| at the hands of copyright law.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090726/1601375666.shtml
Did European Court Just Make Search Engines Illegal? 11-Word Snippet Can Be
Copyright Infringement
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| With the AP being out there claiming that fair use only covers snippets fewer
| than five words, there are some questions about where the boundaries
| for "fair use" of "snippets" lies. Unfortunately, a new ruling in Europe
| seems to be pretty extreme (in a bad way). The ruling found that a snippet as
| short as eleven words could be copyright infringement.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090728/0347535682.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
Judge Posner Recommends Extending Copyright Law To Protect Newspapers
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| But, really, the idea that some extra protectionism is needed to create news
| gathering operations suggests an ignorance of what's actually happening in
| the marketplace. Yes, it's messy right now, but more and more news gathering
| operations are showing up every day -- and they're doing things more
| efficiently, embracing the power of new technologies to do so, rather than
| relying on the old inefficient structures. This is a good thing.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090625/0415405361.shtml
German Publishers demand greater intellectual property laws to protect quality
journalism
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| The principle publishing houses aligned themselves with trade unions of the
| music, film and advertising industries at the "International Media Dialogue"
| in Hamburg earlier this month to discuss to question "No Future for Paid
| Content? Media Industry Under Pressure".
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http://www.editorsweblog.org/newspaper/2009/06/german_publishers_demand_greater_intelle.php
Bloggers share a moral code
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| Andy Koh, Alvin Lim and Ng Ee Soon of Nanyang Technological University,
| Singapore used a web survey of 1,224 international bloggers with active,
| text-based blogs to find out more about the authors, their ethical ideals and
| how they put these into practice. Of those surveyed, about half were male and
| 65 percent were under 30. Most were well educated, and the majority were from
| the US - 65 percent - with no other country accounting for more than eight
| percent of the participants.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/43000/103/
The Guardian Embraces Crowdsourcing The News In Useful Ways
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| Following the recent controversy over expense claims from UK elected
| officials, the paper put all the data online and let people dig through it to
| see what they could find -- and they found a lot of interesting stuff that a
| group of reporters, by themselves almost certainly never would have had the
| time or skill to dig out (some of it included statistical analysis of the
| data).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090623/0305205322.shtml
Netherlands Considers Internet Tax To Fund Newspapers That Can't Compete
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| A bunch of folks have been sending in various versions of this translated
| article from Holland, noting a proposal that's been brought forth to tax
| internet connections in order to give the money to industries that are having
| trouble competing, such as newspapers.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090623/1440545332.shtml
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.
|
| 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.
|
| "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_publishers_are_quietly_holding_a_very_very_important_conclave_today_will_you_soon_be.php
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
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