Mediagazer: Demand Media Says It Wants to Split in Two — Spinning Off Domain Registrar Business From Media Unit (Kara Swisher/AllThingsD)

10:30 PM ET, February 19, 2013

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Demand Media Says It Wants to Split in Two — Spinning Off Domain Registrar Business From Media Unit — Demand Media said today that it planned to split its company in two parts, spinning off its domain business from its media one in a bid to better clarify the company to investors.

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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:

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Adam Liptak / New York Times:

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Alison Langley / Columbia Journalism Review:

Enforcing copyrights in Europe — In the absence of laws, private companies are doing the job — In January, on the anniversary of the defeat of the Stop Online Piracy Act, an Internet activist group called Fight for the Future uploaded a video of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I have a Dream” speech, in violation of copyright law.

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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

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