Mediagazer: Report: Netflix Plans To Order First Original Series for French Market (Elsa Keslassy/Variety)

10:05 PM ET, June 20, 2014

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Deutsche Telekom in talks with Netflix over collaboration - report — (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom is in talks with U.S. video streaming company Netflix about a possible marketing alliance, a German magazine reported on Friday. — German monthly Magazine Manager cited people familiar …

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Elsa Keslassy / Variety:
Report: Netflix Plans To Order First Original Series for French Market

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Cory Doctorow / Guardian:

How Amazon is holding Hachette hostage — By allowing Amazon to put a lock on its products, Hachette has allowed Amazon to usurp its relationship with its customers — For some three weeks now, books from the Hachette publishing group - one of the “big five” publishers who dominate the globe …

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Laura Hazard Owen / Gigaom:

DRM is unfortunate, but it's not the problem in Hachette vs. Amazon — Let me start with the obligatory assurance that I'm no fan of DRM technologies. That's why I use (illegal) tools to break it if I want to buy an ebook from another retailer and read it on my Kindle.

Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:

Viacom loses bid to dismiss Cablevision bundling lawsuit — (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday rejected Viacom Inc's effort to dismiss Cablevision Systems Corp's antitrust lawsuit accusing it of forcing cable providers and subscribers to buy channels they don't want.

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Ed Christman / Billboard:

Inside YouTube's Controversial Contract with Indies — Billboard has obtained a typical contract being offered by YouTube to its indie label partners for its new subscription service. The devil is in the numbers, but also in the overall strategy. — Even though YouTube …

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
That Story You've Read About YouTube ‘Blocking’ Indie Artists... Yeah, That's Not Accurate

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Tony Horwitz / New York Times:

An author describes a cautionary experience publishing a digital best seller with Byliner — I Was a Digital Best Seller! — WEST TISBURY, Mass. — FIVE months ago I published a short book called “Boom.” Commercially it was a bust. No news in that: Most books lose money …

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

16 media outlets ask court for access to Guantanamo force-feeding videos classified as secret — Media seeks Guantanamo force-feeding videos — A group of 16 news organizations is asking a federal judge to make public a batch of videos of a hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay prisoner being forcibly removed from his cell and force fed.

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Tom Rosenstiel / American Press Institute:

How niche reporting leads to higher quality information for everyone: 12 good questions with Lara Setrakian — Syria's civil war is a story that goes in and out of the mainstream news media, but at Syria Deeply, it's the only story. — Lara Setrakian — Founder of Syria Deeply

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Scot Finnie / Computerworld:

After a 47 year run, Computerworld will publish its last print edition on June 23 — The continuing evolution of Computerworld — On June 23, we will publish the last print issue of Computerworld. — It was 47 years ago, almost to the day, that Computerworld's very first issue rolled off the presses: June 21, 1967.

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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica:

German publishers want an 11 percent cut of Google News — Street View, copyright, a “right to be forgotten”—Europe and Google have issues. — Several of Germany's largest newspaper and magazine publishers have instituted legal proceedings against Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

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Peter Adams / The News Literacy Project:

Facebook's related posts could serve as debunkers by highlighting fact-checking sites — Facebook's Related Content Algorithm Might Have More Potential Than It Thinks — In this entry, Peter Adams, NLP's senior VP for educational programs, reflects on the potential of algorithms …

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Craig Silverman / Poynter:

LinkedIn acquires major fact checking patents — Lucas Myslinski was tired of having to fact check the questionable emails his father often forwarded to him. — “My dad would send these emails where they say something like, 'Oh the government is stockpiling billions of dollars of ammunition …

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Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal:

One Week In, World Cup's Opening Game Dominates Global Tweets — Twitter data from the first week of the month-long 2014 World Cup shows just how captivated fans worldwide were by the opening match. — That game, in which soccer superpower and host nation Brazil beat Croatia 3-1 on June 12 …

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