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Shan Wang / Nieman Lab:
Two professors highlight fair use with Kickstarter to pay fee to quote the New York Times in their book; publisher Routledge asked professors to get formal OK — Obtaining formal permission to use three quotations from New York Times articles in a book ultimately cost two professors $1,884.
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@johnmcquaid, Kickstarter, @felixsalmon, @gitagovinda, @jbenton, @jbenton, @jeffjarvis and @chanders
Steve Annear / BostonGlobe.com:
Vermont newspaper owner to give paper to winner of essay contest detailing plans to keep the print publication afloat in the digital age — When Ross Connelly “croaks,” he doesn't want it to be in front of a computer screen while he's trying to make the deadline for next week's newspaper.
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Poynter, @tre4, @malonebarry, Seven Days, Forbes, FishbowlNY, Washington Post and NewBostonPost
Emily Steel / New York Times:
Sources: possible Viacom board members are Kenneth Lerer, Nicole Seligman, Judith McHale, and Thomas J. May in move to reshape board before re-merging with CBS — Philippe P. Dauman, Viacom's embattled chief executive, said Thursday that the entertainment company was continuing its efforts …
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Bloomberg, New York Times, Adweek, @emilysteel, AllAccess.com, @lucas_shaw, Home Media Magazine and Vanity Fair
Kim McLaughlin / Bloomberg:
Axel Springer buys 93% of market researcher EMarketer for $242M — Axel Springer SE agreed to buy market researcher EMarketer Inc. at an enterprise value of about $250 million as the German publisher continues its push into digital businesses and English-speaking markets.
Jessica Davies / Digiday:
German publishers, including Axel Springer, Bertelsmann Group, and Der Spiegel, pool reader data to compete with Google and Facebook — Google and Facebook are now commanding 85 percent of incremental digital ad spending, with publishers left to fight it out over the leftovers.
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
How changes to Apple's App Store subscriptions, including the 85/15 revenue split for subscriptions after 12 months, could affect publishers — Monday is Apple's big day for software announcements at its annual WWDC conference, but we got an early peek at one of them at The Verge …
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Brian Fung / Washington Post:
New York AG Schneiderman tells Charter to speed up TWC's “abysmal” internet service following company's rebranding of TWC/Charter as Spectrum — The ink is barely dry on Charter's massive acquisition of Time Warner Cable — a deal that just formed the nation's second-largest cable company …
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Tech Times, SlashGear and The Verge
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Digital-rights advocates file complaints with the FCC and FTC about the use of consumers' set-top box data by AT&T, Comcast, and Cablevision — Cable companies have spent the better part of five months arguing that the FCC's proposed new set-top rules won't protect people's privacy.
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@publicknowledge, Public Knowledge and Broadcasting & Cable
Ricardo Bilton / Nieman Lab:
The Guardian experiments with interactive, auto-updating push alerts for big stories, only available for Chrome desktop and Android for now — For such a new technology, the news notification is a format that got really safe really quickly. For most publishers, notifications are rarely …
Joy Lanzendorfer / The Atlantic:
A look at the legal, emotional, and financial struggles of self-published authors whose stories are plagiarized — One day two years ago Rachel Ann Nunes, who writes Mormon fiction and romance novels, received an email from a reader asking a strange question: Had she collaborated with someone named Sam Taylor Mullens?
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@mslaurengregory, @baekdal, @pegbrantley and @lindsaymckenna
Robert Cookson / Financial Times:
Time Out raises £90M ahead of listing London junior stock market with plans to expand into e-commerce and build food markets in London, Miami, and Berlin — Time Out, publisher of city guides from New York to Beijing, has raised £90m ahead of a listing on London's junior stock market …
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Bloomberg, Reuters and Press Gazette
Emily Stewart / TheStreet.com:
USA Today editor in chief David Callaway appointed CEO of TheStreet, replacing interim CEO Larry Kramer — David Callaway has been appointed chief executive officer of TheStreet (TST) , replacing Larry Kramer, who has served as interim CEO since February 2016.
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USA Today, New York Magazine, FishbowlDC, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, StreetInsider.com and FishbowlNY
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