More details about Associated Press’s move to protect its content unveiled at Seattle summit I left the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Association Summit of newspaper publishers and ad managers yesterday just as two executives from the Associated Press were winding up their presentation on the new AP News Registry. The new initiative, announced in July, contains […]
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Web 2.0 Expo: Copyright risks
(Photo of Fred von Lohmann at ETech last month by Scott Beale — I was exhausted today so didn’t bring my camera!) The most interesting session of Day Four of the Web 2.0 Expo today, for me, was the presentation by Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Fred von Lohmann about copyright risks. Fred (whom I devoted […]
Not on the ‘NewsHour’
I was invited to appear on today’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS today to discuss Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube, but couldn’t make it. I think I would have been partnered with Susan Crawford, an assistant professor of law at Cardozo Law School, whom I’ve admired for years as a reformer in the field of […]
Viacom: One beeeeelion dollars
(copyright photo by New Line Cinema) From Jeremiah Owyang: Viacom: “One Beeeeelion Dollars.” This is one of those news stories we’ve all been expecting for some time (and which will be old news by the time tomorrow’s newspapers hit the doorstep). I’m a bit conflicted about this. I like YouTube a lot (except for its […]