Mediagazer: At $7.4B, streaming revenue was 43% of all recorded music revenues in 2017; revenue for artists selling directly via platforms like Bandcamp grew 27.2% YoY (Mark Mulligan/Music Industry Blog)

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Amy Chozick / New York Times:

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Tim Cushing / Techdirt:

12th District Court of Appeals strikes down Texas law that made disclosing “revenge porn” unlawful, ruling it violates the First Amendment — Texas attorney Mark Bennett — instrumental in getting an unconstitutional “peeping tom” law tossed in 2014 — has scored another win …

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Dean Yates / Reuters:

Former Iraq bureau chief for Reuters describes dealing with moral injury on top of his PTSD after two colleagues were shot dead by a US helicopter in 2007 — In 2016, I was treated in a psychiatric unit for PTSD after a career spent covering conflict and tragedy. Last July, I was back in Ward 17.

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