Mediagazer: Why movie studios happily violate journalists' copyright (Felix Salmon)

5:10 PM ET, January 7, 2014

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Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Launches News Digest, Its First App Based On Summly — Today at its CES keynote, Yahoo announced a new product, News Digest to help people stay “quickly informed” on the day's big topics by sending out twice daily updates, or digests. — The content is a curated “blend” of information …

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Casey Newton / The Verge:

Yahoo's sleek News Digest app swims against the stream — Summly is reborn as a digital homage to the newspaper — When the news-summarizing startup Summly shut down last March, it was easy to imagine the company had simply been swallowed by the Yahoo machine.

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Felix Salmon:

Why movie studios happily violate journalists' copyright — The white-goods queen of Eighth Avenue asks my opinion on @aoscott agate. I take requests, over here, so: is it kosher for a movie producer to selectively quote from the Twitter feed of the NYT's movie reviewer, in a print ad …

Discussion: Gigaom, @jeffjarvis, @aoscott, @gabrielsnyder and @vosdscott

Margaret Sullivan / The Public Editor's Journal:
When a (Partial) Tweet Becomes an Ad, What Are the Rules?

John McDermott / Digiday:

Twitter Inches Closer to the Local Ad Market — Twitter has grand ambitions as an ad platform, and it appears poised to make a foray into the lucrative but fragmented world of local advertising. — Twitter recently rolled out a new map-based feature called Nearby to select users …

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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:

New rules at Time Inc require stories about company to be approved by Chief Content Officer — Norm Pearlstine lays down the law — Norm Pearlstine has laid down some ground rules for Time Inc.'s editors in a bid to govern what type of material should pass through him for pre-publication approval.

Discussion: @mlcalderone, @antderosa, @edmundlee, @felixsalmon and Capital New York

Nicole Laporte / Fast Company:

Netflix: The Red Menace — Just when Hollywood thought it had Netflix figured out, that “red envelope” company flipped the script, creating a playbook for any business that aspires to upend an industry. It's about to do it again. — “It's the creatives, stupid.”

Discussion: @fastcompany, @felixsalmon and @noahr

Maggie McGrath / Forbes:
Amazon And Hulu Could Slow Netflix Growth In 2014, Morgan Stanley Says

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Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

TiVo Moves Storage Of TV Shows Into The Cloud With New Network DVR Service — DVR manufacturer TiVo has spent most of the last 15 years building hardware that would allow consumers to record their favorite TV shows and watch them later. Now the company is working toward building products …

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Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:

Visit with jailed Al Jazeera correspondent finds him healthy, haggard — CAIRO — Donning a long overcoat to fend off the winter chill, the prison official led the way down some stairs, through an underground parking garage, then back up a short set of steps to the goal: a dingy …

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Mike Isaac / Re/code:

Vine Co-Founder Steps Down From Lead Role at Company — Dom Hofmann, co-founder of the social video-sharing service Vine, has stepped down from his lead general manager role at the company, according to three sources close to the situation. — Hofmann, who has led the company since …

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Jay Rosen / Pressthink:

Bill Gannon joins First Look Media: My Q & A with him about intelligent aggregation in news — Today Pierre Omidyar announced a key hire: recently Bill was editor of Entertainment Weekly, before that boss of the Yahoo home page. — This is from the official press release:

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Hadas Gold / Politico:

Navy mistakenly sends FOIA plans to reporter — The Unites States Navy inadvertently sent a memo to a local NBC News reporter this week detailing how it intended to try and deter requests he had filed under the Freedom Of Information Act. — Scott MacFarlane, a reporter for NBC 4 in Washington …

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Sam Kirkland / Poynter:

HuffPost policy banishes trolls — and drives away some frequent commenters — When The Huffington Post announced that all commenters would be required starting Dec. 10 to link their profiles to Facebook and have their real names displayed when commenting, the reaction was fierce.

Discussion: @niemanlab

Jeremy Barr / Poynter:

FAA says any commercial use of drones including journalism is not allowed yet — FAA on drone recordings by journalists: ‘There is no gray area’ — Last Wednesday, The (Spokane, Wash.) Spokesman-Review published a minute-long, aerial video of a local event.

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Kwame Opam / The Verge:

Samsung announces major 4K streaming partnership with Amazon, Netflix, and others — In addition to inking a deal with Technicolor's M-GO streaming service, Samsung today announced a major partnership with Netflix, Amazon, Comcast, and DirecTV to provide 4K streaming to consumers via their latest UHD TVs.

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