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• There Are Lots Of Ways To Fund Journalism

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 435
  Image via Wikipedia As various folks in the news business (and outside of it) continue to fret about how it could be possible to ever fund the production of news, some are taking more positive looks at the space. Jay Rosen has listed out 18 different sources of subsidies for funding journalism (or ...
  6 days ago

• Techdirt’s Cwf + RtB. [del.icio.us]

  
  Remarkk! — Authority: 125
  Connect with Fans (CwF) and give them a Reason to Buy (RtB). CwF+RtB=$$$
  1 week ago

• Viacoms General Counsel Lecture On Copyright Leaves Out Certain...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Someone once told me that Viacoms top lawyer, Michael Fricklas, has been known to read Techdirt on occasion. read more
  1 week ago

• Inventing a Better Patent System

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 435
  Image via Wikipedia A great source of information on the new frontier of patents, copyright and the ongoing battles of intellectual property protection is: www.techdirt.com GARY LOCKE, the secretary of commerce, has urged Congress to overhaul the nation’s patent law by the end of the year. Although a ...
  1 week ago

• Last Call For Techdirt DMCA Takedown Shirt

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 167
  Just a final reminder that if you want the Techdirt DMCA Takedown T-shirt , today is the last day to order them, either alone or with my Approaching Infinity book . read more
  1 week ago

• About Blogging – and Journalism

  
  UNIX Administratosphere — Authority: 412
  There is a very interesting article over at the Columbia Journalism Review about how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was misquoted, and the diversity of reactions by the various media outlets (including old school and new school) that had to correct their words. What makes this even more interesting is ...
  1 week ago

• Free Doesn’t Mean Devalued

  
  Unity Behind Diversity — Authority: 118
  Ive tightened up my post on why free music doesnt mean devalued music for Techdirt. If youve read the original, its largely the same content, but cleaned up a little and much more concise. Free Doesnt Mean Devalued : The concept of zero took ages for societies to recognize, let alone understand. Mike has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Email Marketing Blog Roundup: CAN-SPAM, Court Cases, and Contrition

  
  The Sign-Up.to Blog — Authority: 118
  As part of a court case, last week saw the decision by a US court that falsifying data used in whois records is illegal according to the CAN-SPAM act, and can lead to up to three months in prison (!) – something which has fairly far-reaching implications on many in the email marketing industry. Here’s a few posts ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rupert Murdoch Decries Web “Parasites” Yet Exploits Aggregation

  
  Mediaite — Authority: 799
  Rupert Murdoch dropped the hint that he was thinking about pulling The Wall Street Journal’s content from Google earlier this week, decrying Google News and aggregator sites as thieves, “plagiarists,” and “parasites.” Conveniently overlooked: plenty of News Corporation sites pull content from other ...
  2 weeks ago

• Posting MP3’s for Free Helps Drive Sales

  
  RouteNote Blog — Authority: 441
  Australian blogger Andrew McMillen recently hosted a panel on the digital music industry in Perth, on which sat Simon Wheeler – director of digital at Beggar’s Group, an amalgamation of some big indie labels here in the UK [theyre on the same road as my old primary school ]. Mr. Wheeler has some pretty ...
  2 weeks ago

• Free Music Doesn’t Mean Devalued Music

  
  Unity Behind Diversity — Authority: 118
  Mike Masnick does a great job of explaining why some libertarian and "free market" types freak out when they see a zero dollar price tag . The concept of zero took ages for societies to even recognize, nevermind understand. Its not a number, but the absence of a number. A stumbling block for mathematics and physics ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stop punishing fans and start selling to them

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  Kicking file sharers off the internet wont help the entertainment industry sell more products writes Mike Masnick.
  3 weeks ago

• Another Wild OverReach by the Guru of Free

  
  Stuff Channel — Authority: 107
  I really enjoy reading the Techdirt blog mostly because it’s fun to watch Mike Masnick tie himself in knots trying to prove things. He is forever posting very speculative things, drawing conclusions that just aren’t obvious, and then to solidify these masterpieces of logic, he then quotes and links them in later ...
  3 weeks ago

• Musician Making A Living With Forty Committed True Fans

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 146
  A year and a half ago, we wrote about Kevin Kelly’s theory that to be a success as a content creator, you just need 1,000 “true fans.” These were the ultra-committed fans. The fans who would follow you to the end of the world and purchase whatever you came out with. And — more importantly — they’ll ...
  4 weeks ago

• Firebowls, Copyright And Crowdfunding (Oh My)

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 146
  A bunch of people have been sending in John T. Unger’s story, claiming that someone who copied his artwork is now suing him in federal court over copyrights. The general sentiment from the submitters, it seems, is to support Unger’s position. I avoided writing about this for a while, because the story is ...
  4 weeks ago

• But Wait, Wasn’t Muni-Fiber Supposed To Take Away Incentive For Private Fiber?

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 146
  Over the past few years, there have been numerous lawsuits by telcos against various municipalities that have decided to launch municipal fiber broadband projects. Most of these lawsuits have failed — but the main argument from the telcos is that it’s unfair to have to compete against the government, and it would ...
  4 weeks ago

• Arizona Court Says Metadata On Public Records Is Public As Well

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 146
  An interesting ruling in the Arizona Supreme Court found that the metadata on a public record should be public as well — so people could, conceivably, look at who created certain documents and when they were created. While that might not seem like a big deal, as the article link above describes, plenty of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Washington Post Calls For Federal Funding Of Newspapers?

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 146
  Just days after we wrote about a study that showed more government funding of the press leads to less reporting on government corruption , along comes the Washington Post with an editorial saying it’s time to have the federal government fund more journalism . I wonder how Watergate would have turned out if the ...
  4 weeks ago

• YouTube Taking Down Public Domain Works?

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 148
  from the make-it-stop dept From TechDirt In the past couple of days I’ve received emails from two separate people who found that public domain material they put on YouTube was taken down to companies claiming ownership of the work. In both cases, the stories seem pretty ridiculous, and for all the complaining ...
  4 weeks ago

• YouTube Taking Down Public Domain Works?

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 146
  In the past couple of days I’ve received emails from two separate people who found that public domain material they put on YouTube was taken down to companies claiming ownership of the work. In both cases, the stories seem pretty ridiculous, and for all the complaining that copyright holders do about how awful it ...
  4 weeks ago

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