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How (and why) to replace the AP « BuzzMachine

The Associated Press is becoming the enemy of the internet because it is fighting the link and the link is the basis of the internet. From Richard Perez-Pena’s New York Times story today : Tom Curley, The A.P.’s president and chief executive, said the company’s position was that even minimal use of a news article online required a licensing agreement with the news organization that produced it. http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/07/24/how-and-why-to-replace-the-ap/

What Would Fair Use Look Like in an Online Era? « J-School: Educ

http://journalismschool.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/what-would-fair-use-look-like-in-an-online-era/ Courts should consider this balance: between the added value of information (provided by the so-called appropriator) and amount of appropriation of the “original” work.
A few weeks ago, I scored what passes these days for one of journalism's biggest coups, satisfying a holy writ for newspaper impact in the Internet age. Gawker, the snarky New York culture and media Web site, had just blogged about my story in that day's Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/31/AR2009073102476.html

Ian Shapira -- How Gawker Ripped Off My Newspaper Story - washin

'Generational Consultant' Holds America's Fakest Job - corporate

http://gawker.com/5310986/generational-consultant-holds-americas-fakest-job The fakest job corporate America ever created was " Branding Consultant "—until now.
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Today's Papers 2009 - A summary of what's in the major U.S. news

High atop the august Tower Club in Fairfax County, overlooking the glass-and-steel edge city of Tysons Corner, business coach Anne Loehr is teaching 20 executives, mainly baby boomers, how to crack one of society's most vexing workplace problems -- how to deal with their youngest employees or clients.

Business Coach Anne Loehr Tries to Bridge Diverse Generations: X

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/08/AR2009070803986.html
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090724/1533155652.shtml from the step-up,-folks dept Earlier today we wrote about the AP's plans to DRM the news , explaining what a backwards plan it was. The story is getting lots of play elsewhere, with many pointing to a NY Times report, where the AP's CEO Tom Curley makes some amazing statements :

How Reuters Should Be Responding To The AP's Suicide | Techdirt

http://www.wordyard.com/2009/07/24/ap-goes-nuclear-on-fair-use/ “A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web.” That’s the headline on a New York Times article right now.

Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard » Blog Archive » A.P. goes nuclear on

We'd better hope it's not "hot news" that the Associated Press announced "an aggressive effort to track down copyright violators on the Internet" at its annual board meeting Monday. If it is, we could conceivably find ourselves on the wrong end of an "aggressive effort" geared to fend off copycat competition and "misappropriation" in the dwindling market for timely reporting.

AP launches campaign against Internet "misappropriation"

from the good-luck-with-that dept

Associated Press Tries To DRM The News | Techdirt

Arnon Mishkin is a partner with Mitchell Madison Group, where he consults for media companies on improving legacy businesses as well as making the internet profitable. Prior to MMG, he was a partner at the Boston Consulting Group, where he did some of the firm’s earliest work on the web.

The Fallacy Of The Link Economy | paidContent

On the link economy « BuzzMachine

Arnon Mishkin says he has found the fallacy of the link economy but I think his argument is itself built on some fallacies, among them: * If links are not valuable, then fine, get rid of them: refuse all aggregators’ and search engines’ robots, complain so much about links that no one bothers to link to you (a la the AP). Or put all your stuff behind a pay wall where the links won’t pay off. Where are you then? Without discovery.