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Techdirt is a weblog that reports on technology trends, and related business and economic policy issues, often focusing on copyright and patent reform. The website was started in 1997 by Mike Masnick and was originally based on the weblog Slash. Techdirt has been named among PC Magazine 's favorite blogs. The content on the blog is based on reader submissions as well as the editorial staff's picks..
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New York Times backs AP in lawsuit against news collector Meltwater
The New York Times is supporting the Associated Press in a controversial copyright case against Meltwater, a service that monitors the news and reproduces headlines and story summaries for its clients. The case pits major media outlets who invest in news against technology advocates who fear the case will suppress the free flow of information.
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Can a Twitter user really prohibit you from republishing tweets?
Techdirt Tim Cushing explains what happened when Teri Buhl, an “investigative journalist covering finance/Wall Street,” declared in her Twitter bio that “No tweets are publishable. ”.
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Why publishers should follow the Verge-HuffPost dustup
It might be hard to understand why staffers at tech site The Verge complained so loudly about a Huffington Post “linkout” that sent readers to a Verge feature. After all, isn’t the Web built on such … Read more.
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Daily Must Reads, October 16, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Leandro Oliva. 1. Circa wants to save journalism by killing articles(Pando Daily)2. Pearson takes down 1.
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Techdirt's 'velvet rope' experiment
Is offering your readers membership benefits a better approach to revenue generation than putting up a hard paywall? The tech commentary site Techdirt thinks so, and has launched some interesting new features that other traditional media companies might want to pay attention to. Original Story:.
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Friday reading #16
Whilst you are reading this, I’ll be standing in the rain waiting for the Green Man Festival to start in Wales. No wifi. No 3G signal. Blissfully unconnected - although possibly slightly missing the green ink brigade below the line.
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Time Magazine Publisher Kim Kelleher Exits for Blog Network Say Media
Kim Kelleher is leaving her post as worldwide publisher of Time magazine to become president of Say Media, the blog network that includes sites such as XOJane, Gardenista, ReadWriteWeb, Style Bubble and Techdirt, Ad Age has learned. Time. . .
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What's the right price for ebooks?
Author Chuck Windig, GigaOm's Mathew Ingram, and TechDirt's Mike Masnick all took on the question of ebook pricing recently, arguing that production costs (you know, minor details like advances, editors, etc. ) don't or shouldn't factor into the end price. Ingram writes that "It doesn't matter what e-books cost to make," and Masnick follows with "Nobody Cares About the.
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Louis Vuitton asks for SOPA-like seizure of hundreds of websites
Brand owners are howling for new laws to help them crush “rogue” websites. But why? New powers don’t seem necessary when courts are already forcing Internet companies to delete websites from the Internet.
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Mediatwits #48: Yahoo CEO Under Fire; Pros and Cons of Metered Pay Walls
Welcome to the 48th episode of the Mediatwits podcast, with Mark Glaser and the Rafat Ali as co-hosts. On this show, we turn to the chaotic soap opera that continues at Yahoo, once an Internet darling on its umpteenth remake. Its new CEO Scott Thompson appears to have padded his bio with a computer science degree that he never received.
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