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Michael Geist Blog:
The Great Canadian Copyright Giveaway: Why Copyright Term Extension for Sound Recordings Could Cost Consumers Millions — Randy Bachman, the well-known Canadian musician, found himself embroiled in a public fight with Prime Minister Stephen Harper last year when Harper used his song …
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Music Week and Intellectual Property Watch
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Felix Salmon / Fusion:
Building a career in digital journalism still requires old-fashioned subject-matter expertise — Is there any such thing as a career in digital journalism? — One of my obsessions these days is the question of whether there's any such thing as a career in digital journalism.
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Digidave, @siegel, @tylrfishr, @jackshafer, @derekwillis, @tomgara, @jbarro, @silvermanjacob, @caseyjohnston, @aubernalevy and @mikeisaac
Wall Street Journal:
FCC staff recommends hearing on Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger, a procedure seen as a likely deal-killer — FCC Staff Recommends Hearing on Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger — Hearing designation order would be setback for deal plans — Federal Communications Commission staff recommended …
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corporate.comcast.com, TVNewser, New York Times, CNNMoney, @brianstelter, Engadget, New York Times, @jbflint, Re/code, @brianstelter, @richbtig, Los Angeles Times, Guardian and The Verge
Ethan Zuckerman / My Heart's in Accra:
MIT's new FOLD publishing platform uses an accordion structure to supplement stories with maps, images, video, and text — Introducing FOLD, a new tool (and a new model?) for storytelling — This morning, Center for Civic Media at MIT is releasing a new publishing platform, FOLD.
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Network World, @awrd and @mathewi
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Facebook Hits 4 Billion Daily Video Views in Q1; Mobile Ad Revenue Grows 80% — Facebook posted revenue slightly below Wall Street expectations for the first quarter of 2015, but the social giant is still seeing solid growth — especially on the mobile and video front.
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Facebook, Fast Company, .rising, Benzinga, The Next Web, TechCrunch, CNBC, The Wrap and VentureBeat
Committee to Protect Journalists:
China's Great Cannon: New weapon to suppress free speech online — China, rated as the eighth most censored country in the world, in a report released by CPJ today, has long had a strong line of defense against free speech online. Its Golden Shield Project, launched by the Ministry …
Benjamin Mullin / Poynter:
Freelancer safety coalition has nearly tripled in 2 months — Since a group of news organizations signed onto a list of freelancer safety guidelines months ago, dozens more organizations have rallied to the cause. — The guidelines, which were released in February, set forth a list …
Discussion:
@poynter
Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal:
Google launches free tool to help AdSense publishers recommend more articles to their readers — Google Edges Further Into Hot Content Recommendation Sector — Google has rolled out a new free product designed to make it easier for Web publishers to get people to stick around on their sites longer.
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Inside AdSense, TWCN Tech News, WebProNews and @wsjcmo
Minda Smiley / The Drum:
US internet ad revenues reached an all-time high of $49.5bn last year — Digital advertising revenue in the US rose to a record-breaking high of $49.5bn in 2014, a 16 per cent increase from the year prior and the fifth year in a row of double-digit growth, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
Discussion:
IAB and Financial Times
Greg Wyshynski / Yahoo Sports:
NHL bans media use of Periscope and Meerkat without prior written approval — NHL bans media from using Periscope, Meerkat to subvert rights-holders — During the Ottawa Senators' push for the playoffs, I pointed my phone at my television, fired up Periscope and streamed a shootout …
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FierceOnlineVideo News, @dubois, @paulvigna, @andreabellemare and GeekWire
Rick Seltzer / Baltimore Business Journal:
Sinclair signs Sharyl Attkisson for Sunday morning news push — x — Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. is wading into the Sunday morning news wars, with plans to launch a show this fall hosted by veteran watchdog reporter Sharyl Attkisson. — The move is another foray into original programming …
Discussion:
PR Newswire
John Robinson / Media, disrupted:
Eight years after layoffs began at his paper, an editor finds courage to write about the pain — Laying off journalists — In 2007, I told 17 fulltime and a dozen part-time News & Record journalists they were laid off. A student asked me to talk about it for a class project she was working on.
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@heyjturner, @jawtry, @johnrobinson, @deftlyinane, @sunsentinello and One Man & His Blog
Associated Press:
Associated Press revenue grew 1% in 2014 to $604M, its first gain in six years; 47% of revenue came from TV broadcasters — ASSOCIATED PRESS POSTS FIRST REVENUE GAIN IN 6 YEARS — NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press boosted its revenue for the first time in six years in 2014 …
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