Nieman Journalism Lab: WSJ: We charge, why aren’t you?
Tuesday, 24 February 2009, 22:12 via Delicious/martinstabe
Mathew Ingram's critique of Crovitz's paid content piece: "As for WestLaw and Major League Baseball and Xbox Live and iTunes, let’s remember that all of these entities control the content in an almost — or even outright — monopolistic fashion (and WestLaw doesn’t just own the legal data, it actually controls the referencing method for that data, which is used by virtually all courts and law firms). MLB and Xbox and iTunes content is virtually unavailable in any other format." Read More...
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