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Freedom Communicationsâ Valley Morning Star Drops Its Pay Wall
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| The Valley Morning Star in Harlingen,
| Texas, which was a test-bed for Freedom
| Communicationsâ plans to potentially charge
| users for online access to its papers,
| returned to a free site last week less than
| a year after beginning to charge for online
| content. The paper is a small daily
| (circulation 23,000) but when it instituted
| its paywall in July 2009, it said it had
| been âselected to be the first newspaper in
| a Freedom Communicationsâ initiative to use
| its online edition to boost readersâ
| subscription values.â At the time,
| publisher Tyler Patton said, âThe days of
| giving content away, which costs money to
| create and for which we charge our print
| subscribers, I think, are just overâ and
| added that other Freedom papers would
| likely follow his paperâs lead.
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http://paidcontent.org/article/419-freedoms-valley-morning-star-drops-its-pay-wall/
Corporate Copyright Scofflaws 0004 â The Motion Picture Association of America
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| The largest copyright pirates are the large
| corporations, particularly in the content
| distribution business. Yes, those companies
| who scream the loudest that their customers
| are âpiratingâ movies, songs, books, etc.
| In this series, we are going to look at
| cases where these companies have engaged in
| large scare copyright infringement.
|
| [...]
|
| When the MPAA did not respond to his
| requests, Matthew actually had to resort to
| a Digital Millennium Copyright Act take
| down notice sent to the MPAAâs ISP to get
| action. The problem was that the MPAA, that
| great advocate of copyright, was not in
| compliance with copyright law, specifically
| they did not release the source as required
| when you distribute an application which
| uses code which is covered by the General
| Public License.
|
| Do you get the impression that thereâs two
| sets of rules? One for them (we can do
| whatever we want and you canât stop us) and
| one for us (do what we say, not what we
| do).
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http://madhatter.ca/2010/04/10/corporate-copyright-scofflaws-0004-the-motion-picture-association-of-america/
eBook Piracy âSurgesâ After iPad Launch
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| With 500.000 iPads sold in the first week,
| Appleâs new multi-gadget is already a force
| to be reckoned with. As book publishers see
| the iPad as a potential threat to their
| revenues, we take a look to find out what
| happened to eBook piracy in the last week.
| The results are surprising.
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http://torrentfreak.com/ebook-piracy-surges-after-ipad-launch-100409/
FT Deal With Foursquare Lets Users âUnlockâ Paywall
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| The move is notable because the FT has been
| so ardent in defending its pay system.
| Clearly, the Foursquare deal shows that the
| FT isnât about to give up on its metered
| model, but it demonstrates that even one of
| the prime examples of paywalls has to be
| flexible when it comes to attracting
| younger users.
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http://paidcontent.org/article/419-ft-deal-with-foursquare-lets-users-unlock-paywall/
Managing data vs. producing data on digital artifacts â or how content vs. pipes was moot from the start
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| If computer reading is cheaper and more
| convenient, can free digital publishing
| lead to sale of same data on physical
| substrate ? Free data on physical substrate
| has market value if the substrate has value
| on its own or if the data has sentimental
| value. That is a potential axis of
| development for the traditional publishing
| industry : when nostalgia and habits are
| involved, the perceived value of the scarce
| physical substrate of digitally abundant
| data may actually increases. Of course,
| free data has value on its own â but, as
| the reader of this blog certainly knows, it
| involves a business model entirely
| different to physical items.
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http://serendipity.ruwenzori.net/index.php/2010/04/11/managing-data-vs-producing-data-on-digital-artifacts-or-how-content-vs-pipes-was-moot-from-the-start
The Final Copyright Consultation Numbers: No Repeat Of Bill C-61
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| The copyright consultation concluded last
| fall and it seems worth reminding Canadian
| Heritage Minister James Moore and Industry
| Minister Tony Clement what Canadians had to
| say when they asked for their opinion on
| copyright reform. It has taken some time
| to calculate the final numbers as the
| government conducted a review to ensure
| that all were properly posted. There were
| ultimately more than 8,300 submissions -
| more than any government consultation in
| recent memory - with the overwhelming
| majority rejecting Bill C-61 (6138
| submissions against, 54 in support), while
| thousands called for flexible fair dealing
| and a link between copyright infringement
| and anti-circumvention rules.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4946/125/
Recent:
Firefox Plugin Liberates Paywalled Court Records
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| "If you want to access federal court records, you're often forced to use
| PACER, a cumbersome, paywalled Web site run by the federal judiciary. My
| colleagues and I at Princeton's Center for IT Policy have released a new
| Firefox extension called RECAP that allows users to automatically upload the
| documents they download from PACER into a public archive hosted by the
| Internet Archive. It also saves users money by automatically notifying them
| if a document they're searching for is available for free from the public
| archive. Over time, we hope to build a comprehensive, free repository of
| federal court records that's available to everyone."
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http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/14/1158247/Firefox-Plugin-Liberates-Paywalled-Court-Records
After Three Months, Newsday's Grand Paywall Experiment Has 35 Paying Customers. Yes, 35.
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| Like many, we were amazed at the decision
| by Cablevision to try charging $5 per week
| (yes, per week) for its paywall to Newsday
| content online. The newspaper itself is
| not particularly good and doesn't really
| provide all that much in the way of excess
| value compared to what else is out there.
| And $5/week is extremely high. Yet, even
| so, we're a bit surprised that after three
| months, the paper has a grand total of 35
| paying subscribers. Yes, 35. I'm sure that
| extra $175/week comes in quite handy. Oh
| right, they also saved on the salary of
| their popular columnist who quit, rather
| than have his work hidden behind a
| paywall.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100126/1515217905.shtml
Daily Mirror Blocks NewsNow; Will It Start Paying Its Own Sources?
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| We've already described how ridiculously
| hypocritical it is for various newspapers
| to block UK aggregator service NewsNow
| from linking to their articles in its paid
| subscription service, but apparently it's
| a difficult concept for some to grasp. The
| UK's Daily Mirror has now started blocking
| access to NewsNow's crawlers, claiming
| that its only problem is the fact that
| NewsNow makes money off subscriptions. If
| it wasn't making any money, the paper
| wouldn't have a problem.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100127/0454137915.shtml
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