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8:20 AM ET, September 6, 2015

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Hollywood Reporter:
Aretha Franklin wins injunction preventing airing of documentary “Amazing Grace” at Telluride  —  Aretha Franklin Granted Injunction to Stop Telluride Showing of ‘Amazing Grace’  —  The singer says the new film showing her 1972 performance violated her rights to name and likeness and invaded her privacy.
David Post / Washington Post:
Trans Pacific Partnership treaty appears to contain language that may prevent US from eliminating statutory damages for orphan works  —  In a dark corner of the Trans-Pacific Partnership lurks some pretty nasty copyright law  —  The extent to which our international obligations interact with …
Discussion: Techdirt
Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter:
DirecTV, Al Jazeera Settle $75 Million Lawsuit  —  As the Qatari-backed cable news network faces new claims from Al Gore, it settles a carriage dispute with the satellite giant.  —  DirecTV and Al Jazeera America have reached a deal that resolves dueling legal claims over carriage of the Qatari-backed cable news network.
Keith J. Kelly / New York Post:
Gannett, Advance, Hearst, McClatchy, and Tribune in early-stage talks to merge national digital and print ad sales in 30 markets  —  Nation's largest paper chains talk merger in ad revenue push  —  Five of the nation's largest —and battered — newspaper chains are in hush-hush talks …
Bourree Lam / The Atlantic:
US households pay an average $231 a year renting cable boxes, creating a $19.5B industry that gives little incentive to innovate  —  Cable-Box Rentals: A Needless $19-Billion Industry  —  One of the least glamorous realities of the American cable industry is a relic invented in 1948: the cable box.
Alex Heath / Tech Insider:
How Spotify is using Echo Nest algorithms and humans to create its Discovery Weekly playlist  —  Spotify is getting unbelievably good at picking music — here's an inside look at how  —  There's a playlist on Spotify I love called Discover Weekly.  It's updated every Monday with a mix of songs …
Discussion: @flaneur
Justin Ellis / Nieman Lab:
Parse.ly study shows publishers use article tags to track sponsored content and control paywall access  —  Do article tags matter?  Maybe not for traffic, but publishers are using them to glean insights  —  Analytics company Parse.ly found that sites are expanding their use of article tags …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Adobe survey: 61.9% of streamed pay TV, generally content owned by cable networks, is viewed on Apple devices  —  Survey: 61.9% of streamed pay TV is viewed on Apple devices  —  TV Everywhere (sometimes called authenticated streaming) is the entertainment industry's clunky term …
Discussion: CMO.com and TechCrunch
Tim Peterson / Ad Age:
IAB Explores Its Options to Fight Ad Blockers, Including Lawsuits  —  Trade Org Has Held Two Summits This Summer to Map a Course of Action  —  As the digital media and advertising industries come to grips with the rise of ad blocking, so is one of the industry's more prominent organizing bodies.
Jeremy Barr / Politico:
Fusion overhauls TV strategy, with job cuts likely as it focuses on original documentaries, investigative programming, and US presidential election  —  Changes coming for Fusion's TV strategy  —  Fusion, the multimedia company formed from a joint investment of Univision and Disney-ABC …
Central News:
Sky News cameraman Mick Deane, killed in 2013, was shot after flack jacket was confiscated at Cairo airport  —  Sky News cameraman was shot in Egypt after his flak jacket was confiscated  —  Mick Deane was killed by a sniper in August 2013 after his crew's bulletproof vests were seized at Cairo airport …
 
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