Mediagazer: Amazon wins broad patent to create marketplace for used digital content (Laura Hazard Owen/paidContent)

8:30 AM ET, February 6, 2013

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

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Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

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Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Amazon wins broad patent to create marketplace for used digital content — Amazon has won a patent for an “electronic marketplace” where users can resell digital content. The company had filed for the patent in 2009 and it was awarded on January 29, 2013. — GeekWire first reported the news.

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Agustino Fontevecchia / Forbes:

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Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:

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ABC News:

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Bloomberg:

Google Said in Talks to Invest $50 Million in Vevo Site — Google Inc.'s YouTube is negotiating a $50 million equity investment in music video service Vevo LLC, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. — Google would own less than 10 percent of the company …

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Arif Durrani / Media Week:

PPA to publish combined print and digital figures for magazines — The Professional Publishers Association (PPA) is set to publish combined print and digital figures for the magazine industry for the first time to sit alongside next week's Audit Bureau of Circulations report.

Loretta Chao / Wall Street Journal:

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Dana Rubinstein / Capital New York:

Court rules in favor of NYPD: ‘Times’ can't have addresses of handgun-license holders — Today, an appellate court ruled against the New York Times in a suit about gun permits, and public access to an electronic database containing the addresses of permit-holders, arguing that a lower-court judge had …

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Brooks Barnes / Media Decoder:

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Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Rupert Murdoch claims Chinese hackers are still attacking the Wall Street Journal — Last week news broke that the New York Times had been victim to a four-month long hacking campaign from China after publishing an investigative report on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's family finances in October 2012.

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

Super Bowl online streaming viewership grows to 3 million in second year — In the second year the Super Bowl has been streamed online, viewership has grown sharply — even if it's still barely a blip compared to traditional TV viewership. According to CBS, its stream of Super Bowl XLVII …

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Jasper Jackson / TheMediaBriefing:

Datawatch: News accounts for less then four percent of time spent online — People still want news online - even if they aren't prepared to pay for it. Right? In the context of a widening digital economy it's important to consider just how big a role online news and information plays.

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

“The brain of the New York Times, the body of BuzzFeed” — Slate's third act — Slate started life as as a scrappy web pioneer under Microsoft in 1996. Since then, it has gone on to carve out an enviable perch in the liberal media establishment as part of the Washington Post Company.

Ben Flanagan / The National:

Viacom to invest in Arabic content and production — The American media giant behind MTV and Nickelodeon plans to invest in Arabic content as it looks to grow its presence in the Middle East. Viacom, which is listed on the Nasdaq exchange, says local productions and events centered around …

Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:

Would you watch a video to access content? Selectable Media thinks so, expands to mobile — Online ad provider Selectable Media unveiled a new service Tuesday that lets publishers ask readers to watch a video ad in exchange for getting access to certain types of video game or news content on mobile devices.

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