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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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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 …
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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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.
Brian Fung / Washington Post:
New York AG Schneiderman tells Charter to speed up Time Warner Cable'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 …
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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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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
NAA is getting ready to accept digital-only sites as members — In a break with tradition, The Newspaper Association of America is looking to expand its membership to include digital-only news organizations, according to its top leaders. — Chairman Tony Hunter and President and CEO David Chavern …
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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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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Marty Swant / Adweek:
Pandora to begin beta testing responsive mobile ads, and introduce muted video ads in August as it moves away from pop-up ads — Pandora is overhauling its ads to create a more dynamic experience for some 80 million monthly users—blending images and sound, and integrating native video into its mobile experience.
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