AP chides reporters for tweeting about Occupy news before the news hits the wire bit.ly/rTpLzE So shouldn’t the wire speed up?!
– The New York Times’ (and former Facebook and Twitter product guy) Brian Stelter, in response to an email by Associated Press managing editor Lou Ferrara, reprimanding reporters for breaking news on Twitter before it hit the wire
Peter Kafka in Media on April 19, 2011 at 9:23 pm PT
The 99-cents-a-week service looks like the kind of thing that could drive the New York Times and the Associated Press batty. Instead, they’ve signed on for a piece of the action.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT
A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app.
The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.
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Peter Kafka in Media on January 12, 2011 at 11:05 am PT
Good to get this one cleared up before the 2012 election: The Associated Press has settled its copyright case with artist Shepard Fairey, who used an AP photograph to create the once-famous
Obama “Hope” poster in 2008. The case has been worth watching for digital types because it hinges on the concept of “fair use,” but an
AP press release notes that “neither side surrenders its view of the law.” The two sides will work together to generate revenue from the poster and related images, and Fairey plans on making more stuff using AP photos, with the news group’s permission.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 22, 2010 at 5:21 am PT
Sony’s “Music Unlimited” is like many other monthly subscription services, except you can’t take it with you. Oh dear.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 9, 2010 at 10:52 am PT
Because it’s
commentary. Duh. Though Amazon could have made that clearer from the jump.
Emily Veach, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 14, 2010 at 4:32 pm PT
For the first time, soccer fans in the U.S. can watch every single World Cup match. Such is the norm in Europe, and in mainland China.
Football crazy Hong Kongers who live in buildings with satellite antennae might’ve tuned in to mainland China’s CCTV, but now that loophole is being sewn up.
In Hong Kong, the subscription service i-Cable won the legal rights to show every match.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 20, 2010 at 5:11 am PT
A good reminder that the definition of the “World Wide Web” can change, depending on the country you’re living in: The Pakistani government is trying to block some of the planet’s most popular Web sites, including Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia.
