Guardian: Independent writer’s admission highlights news copyright issues
Wednesday, 29 June 2011, 08:12
David Banks: "[When] interviewing someone, a journalist uses skill and labour in recording quotes accurately and selecting those most appropriate for publication. So the quotes in an interview are protected by copyright. If any are to be used by a…
Bloomberg: Google Loses Copyright Appeal Over Internet Links to Belgian Newspapers
Monday, 9 May 2011, 19:53
"The Court of Appeal in Brussels on May 5 upheld a 2007 lower court ruling that forced Google to remove links and snippets of articles from French- and German-language Belgian newspapers from Google.com and Google.be."
Monday Note: Flipboard: Threat and Opportunity
Monday, 25 April 2011, 16:42
Frédéric Filloux: "Every media company should be afraid of Flipboard. The Palo Alto startup epitomizes the best and the worst of the internet. The best is for the user. The worst is for the content providers that feed its stunning expansion with…
Ordnance Survey Blog: Changes to the OS OpenData licence
Thursday, 6 January 2011, 12:41
"From today, anyone who visits the OS OpenData site, where they can download a wide range of Ordnance Survey mapping for free, will notice something a little different. That’s because we’ve incorporated the Open Government Licence, the new gov…
NLA v Meltwater
Friday, 26 November 2010, 12:53
Full text of the judgement in the Newspaper Licensing Agency case against aggregator Meltwater
The Australian: Fairfax Media loses copyright battle
Thursday, 9 September 2010, 12:44
"The Federal Court has ruled against Fairfax Media's attempt to claim copyright over headlines in The Australian Financial Review. The decision is seen by the publishing industry to have significant implications for the reproduction of newspaper articles."
HMG Your Freedom: Abolish the ban on recording court proceedings
Wednesday, 28 July 2010, 15:09
Alistair Kelman: "Currently under Section 9 of the Contempt of Court Act 1981 it is illegal to tape record court proceedings. This topic was addressed by Ms Heather Brooke in a feature article in today's Times newspaper where she makes out the case very eloquently. As a barrister and expert witness I too have encountered similar problems in the UK courts and believe that no is the time for this Government to abolish the ban."
BuzzMachine: There is no hot news. All news is hot news.
Monday, 28 June 2010, 19:21
Jeff Jarvis on the TheFlyOnTheWall.com case: "Hot news limitations should be repellant to journalists, even desperate ones, because every journalist builds on the facts revealed by others. It should further be repugnant to them as it constitutes a form of court-supervised prior restraint."
Press Gazette: ‘Epic Boobs’ woman loses Loaded privacy complaint
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 14:27
"This case raised the important principle of the extent to which newspapers and magazines are able to make use of information that is already freely available online. …"
Fast Company: This Is Twitter, There Are Rules: How AFP Stole a Photographer’s Work, Then Sued Him
Monday, 10 May 2010, 15:43
A big copyright dispute is brewing between a major news agency and a freelance photographer over Haiti earthquake pictures originally published on TwitPic.
Holdthefrontpage.co.uk: Regional publisher pays BNP over copyright breach
Thursday, 11 March 2010, 10:26
"A regional newspaper has paid the British National Party £259.99 in an out-of-court settlement after an infringement of copyright … [on a] photograph taken by BNP official Clive Bennett from Swansea which was lifted without authorisation from Mr Phillips' personal Facebook account."
Press Gazette: Google could be protected from UK copyright liability
Tuesday, 12 January 2010, 18:39
"Search engines, such as Google, could become exempt from possible copyright infringement under amendments tabled to the Digital Economy Bill by Conservative peer Lord Lucas."
Press Gazette: Newspaper Licensing Agency suspends invoicing users of new ‘link tax’
Thursday, 7 January 2010, 16:36
"The Newspaper Licensing Agency said today it has suspended charging users of media monitoring services for access to news clippings until after the completion of a Copyright Tribunal brought against it by clippings firm, Meltwater."
paidContent: World Press’ Collective Delusion Boils Over: Respect Us, Dammit
Saturday, 5 December 2009, 12:35
Great comment on PaidContent: "many in the [newspaper] industry seem to be tripping over the fallacy that if something is expensive to produce, there must be a profit-making market for that product. If that were true, there would be a vibrant market for diamond-encrusted buggy whips."
