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Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Peter Greste and Mohamed Fahmy apply for deportation from Egypt to Australia and Canada — Two of Al-Jazeera Three apply for deportation from Egypt — Peter Greste and Mohamed Fahmy formally ask chief prosecutor to send them to Australia and Canada after case sent for retrial
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Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Egypt court orders retrial for Peter Greste and his Al Jazeera colleagues, denies bail — Egypt court orders retrial for Peter Greste and Al-Jazeera colleagues — Al-Jazeera Three, Greste Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, are to be retried and bail has been denied
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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Sources: Yahoo execs have considered buying CNN or Scripps Networks and its 7 cable channels — Marissa Mayer Has Surprising Interest In Buying A Cable Channel, Yahoo Sources Say — Here is a perhaps crazy idea that sources tell us Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and her top executives have considered …
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
After 43 years on TV, Bill Moyers will officially retire on Friday, for the third time — Bill Moyers signs off — for the final time, he swears — This time, Bill Moyers really means it. After 43 years as public television's most visible intellectual and its most unabashed liberal, he's done.
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Violet Blue / ZDNet:
India lifts block on Vimeo, Dailymotion, Weebly, and Github Gist, 28 sites remain banned — India lifts block on Vimeo; Pastebin, Internet Archive, others still banned — Summary:The Indian government's internet block on 32 websites, affecting nearly 300 million citizens …
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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
North Korea/Sony Story Shows How Eagerly U.S. Media Still Regurgitate Government Claims — The identity of the Sony hackers is still unknown. President Obama, in a December 19 press conference, announced: “We can confirm that North Korea engaged in this attack.”
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to put briefs and other filings online starting as soon as 2016 — High Court, In Big Leap, Plans to Put Filings Online — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will soon join other federal courts in making briefs and other filings available electronically, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. announced Wednesday.
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James Vincent / The Verge:
New tax rules for digital goods take effect in Europe, affecting apps, ebooks, music downloads, more — Apps, ebooks, and album downloads are about to get more expensive in Europe — New legislation is making internet companies fork out more tax, and consumers will likely pay the price
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Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Scribd Raises $22M For Its Subscription E-Book Service — Scribd, a company offering unlimited access to half a million e-books for $8.99 a month, is announcing that it has raised $22 million in additional funding. — The round was led by Khosla Ventures, with Khosla partner Keith Rabois …
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Jana Winter / The Intercept:
FBI bulletin says hackers who attacked Sony have threatened an unnamed news organization — Sony Hackers Threaten U.S. News Media Organization — The cyberterrorists who hacked Sony Pictures Entertainment's computer servers have threatened to attack an American news media organization …
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Center for the Study of the Public Domain:
As copyright expires on some works in Canada and Europe, US law prohibits any works from entering the public domain until 2019 — What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2015? — Current US law extends copyright for 70 years after the date of the author's death, and corporate …
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Jonathan Band / Disruptive Competition Project:
MLK estate refused to license speeches, forcing filmmakers to paraphrase in Selma docudrama — Paraphrasing Selma — Among the most powerful moments of Selma, the new film about the march Martin Luther King, Jr. led in 1965 in support of voting rights for African Americans, are the speeches …
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Joe Pompeo / Capital New York:
Bloomberg Business readies for Davos with Jan. 20 debut — January 20 is shaping up to be a big day for Bloomberg L.P. — That's the date that's been chosen to unveil the company's much-anticipated flagship media portal, Bloomberg Business, according to sources with knowledge of the plans …
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