Mediagazer: How Disney learned to stop worrying and love copyright infringement (Andrew Leonard/Salon)

11:45 PM ET, May 27, 2014

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

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Andrew Leonard / Salon:

How Disney learned to stop worrying and love copyright infringement — The Monday before the Oscars, Scott Kramer, a digital content producer based in Los Angeles, called his close friend Joshua Elson, a high school choir teacher, with an idea. For months, both their families had been obsessed …

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Wall Street Journal:

Amazon Doesn't Expect Quick Resolution to Hachette Dispute — Contract Disagreement Has Led Amazon to Restrict Sale of Some Hachette Titles — Amazon.com Inc. said Tuesday it doesn't expect a quick resolution of a contract dispute with Hachette Book Group that has led to Amazon restricting the sale of some Hachette titles.

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Dan Hart / Bloomberg:
Hachette Apologizes to Authors Caught in Amazon Dispute

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Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
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Ken Auletta / New Yorker:

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Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal:

Twitter and Omnicom Strike $230 Million Mobile Ad Deal — Omnicom Media Group announced a mobile-focused deal with Twitter on Tuesday, worth $230 million over the next two years. — The deal will integrate Omnicom's programmatic ad buying unit Accuen with Twitter's ad exchange MoPub …

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Fox News:

Supreme Court rejects effort to compel FoxNews.com reporter to reveal sources — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a last-ditch bid by the lawyers for Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes to compel FoxNews.com reporter Jana Winter to reveal confidential sources from a story or face jail.

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Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Mashable:

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David Sell / The Inquirer:

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