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FTC Workshop: Panel on Emerging Business Models for Online Journalism and Intellectual Property Rights

Permalink 07 December 09    Inside Justice ®   Renee Dopplick    Tags: News, North America, United States, Technology    
Nearly five years after the Grokster case transformed the freewheeling world of free online music sharing into the fee-based business model of iTunes, newspapers are arguing for similar legal enforcement of their intellectual property rights online. The enemy is no longer peer-to-peer (P2P) software. Rather, the new alleged enemy is "news aggregators," such as Google News. At last week's FTC Workshop on Journalism and the Internet, a panel of nine industry experts addressed, "Emerging Business Models for Journalism." The 9-person panel included two lawyers: Srinandan Kasi, General Counsel for the Associated Press and Steven Brill, a graduate of Yale Law School and co-founder of Journalism Online, Inc. Update: the archived webcast is now available. More


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