RCFP: NEW ISSUE: The News Media And The Law, Winter 2010

Here is the link to the new issue of The News Media and the Law, Winter 2010

Pew Research Ctr Millennials Conference (Feb 2010)

Pew posted some videos and transcripts for their Millennials Conference: A portrait of Generation Next

http://pewresearch.org/millennials/video/conference.php

Variety: O’Brien goes on tour – go yee with Coco?

Schneider, M. (2010, March 11). Conan O’Brien’s ‘Funny’ fans – Entertainment News, TV News, Media – Variety. Variety. Retrieved March 12, 2010, from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118016376.html?categoryId=14&cs=1&nid=2248

O’Brien is going on tour.  Here is an excerpt:

O’Brien’s exit package from NBC keeps him off air until September — but doesn’t ban him from taking to the stage, via his just-announced 32-city tour, “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television.”

Video @ paidContent2010: A Hard Look At The Subscription Model

Here is the description by Amanda Natividad of the video:

Local newspapers may actually have an easier time charging for content than national and international news brands like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT). And what’s the biggest threat to paid music? Well, probably not piracy. These were among the assertions by panelists on paidContent2010’s The Truth About Subscriptions, who included Steve Brill, co-founder of Journalism Online, David Hyman, CEO of MOG, and Jeff Price, president and publisher of The Sporting News. Price also offered some details on his new subscription plan. The panel was moderated by Staci D. Kramer.

Watch it from paidContent here.

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Variety: cable operators file petition with FCC

Littleton, Cynthia. (2010, March 9). Cable operators file petition with FCC. Variety. Retrieved March 10, 2010, from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118016248.html?categoryid=10&cs=1&nid=2248

This is regarding “rules governing retrans negotiations.”

Roger Ebert’s Journal: Variety, this thumb’s for you

Ebert, R. (2010, March 9). Variety: This thumb’s for you. Chicago Sun-Times / Roger Ebert’s Journal. Retrieved March 10, 2010, from http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/03/variety_this_thumbs_for_you.html

Ebert writes about Variety’s post-Oscar pink slips — one went to “its chief film critic, Todd McCarthy.”  An excerpt:

Variety used to cover everything. I remember a magical night in Rome in 1967, when I sat late at night on the Via Veneto and gawked at the last remnants of la dole vita. A held a copy of Weekly Variety, all black and white on newsprint and easily more that 100 pages thick. I became fascinated by the back pages, the items two paragraphs long about cabaret performers in Boston, dancers in Miami, magicians in Philadelphia, lounge acts in Las Vegas, jazz clubs in London. Variety got its name from variety artists, and for decades they lived off a favorable notice in its pages. The paper then truly was “the showbiz Bible.”

Well, those days over with. The glory days of the famous Variety critics are finished

Park Ctr for Indy Media: Flanders (GRITtv) and Silver (Free Press) to speak 3/11/10

TV Host And Media Policy Expert Team Up For Talk On Independent Media

Dave Maley, 3/1/2010

Related Information:

ITHACA, NY — Laura Flanders hosts one of the most successful Web-based television shows. Josh Silver heads the nation’s largest media reform group. Both are experts on the rapidly changing media environment. The duo will unite to give a free public talk — “Independent Media and Critical Journalism: How Do We Get There?” — on Thursday, March 11, at 8 p.m. in Ithaca College’s Emerson Suites.

Flanders currently hosts “GritTV,” a daily news show seen widely on the Internet and on the Free Speech TV satellite channel. She previously hosted radio programs on the Air America network as well as for “The Nation” magazine and the media watch group FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting). She is the author of the books “Blue Grit,” about grassroots social change; “Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species,” about women serving in President George W. Bush’s cabinet; and “Real Majority, Media Minority: The Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting,” a collection of essays.

Silver is the cofounder and executive director of Free Press, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group which works for diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media and universal access to communication. He oversees all programs, campaigns, fundraising and special projects for the organization, which is an active proponent of Net neutrality and maintains the activist websites StopBigMedia.com and SaveTheInternet.com. He has published extensively on media policy, campaign finance and other public policy issues.

The lecture is sponsored by the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) with support from the Park Foundation. Based in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, PCIM is a national center for the study of media outlets that create and distribute content outside traditional corporate structures.

For more information, contact PCIM director Jeff Cohen at jcohen@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-1330.
Originally published in News Releases: TV Host And Media Policy Expert Team Up For Talk On Independent Media.

MIT World: The Culture Beat and New Media

New from MIT World. From the lead paragraph of the program description, “Celebrity culture and the brutal economics of print journalism have conspired to kill arts criticism, but it has begun migrating to the web, where it just may survive and even thrive. Panelists discuss the field’s colorful history, current decline, and possibly vibrant future.”   Watch it from MIT World, click here.

more about “The Culture Beat and New Media | MIT …“, posted with vodpod

PoynterOnline: the Art of Access to public records

Meyers, S. (2010, March 4). Psychology, Culture Key in the ‘Art of Access’ to Public Records. PoynterOnline. Retrieved March 4, 2010, from http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=178841

Examines the new book by CQ Press on The Art of Access: Strategies for Acquiring Public Records.

FCC news: cable dispute, broadband and libraries, higher ed and net neutrality…

Littleton, Cynthia. (2010, March 3). Will FCC enter cable dispute? Variety. Retrieved March 4, 2010, from http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118016022.html?categoryId=14&cs=1&nid=2248

Terry, J. (2010, March 1). Library, higher education groups call on FCC to adopt net neutrality principles. District Dispatch / News for friends of libraries from the ALA Washington Office. Retrieved March 4, 2010, from http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4467

ALA hosts event on Capitol Hill to discuss findings of FCC-commissioned report. (2010, March 2). District Dispatch / News for friends of libraries from the ALA Washington Office. Retrieved March 4, 2010, from http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4481

See also: SSRN’s Broadband Adoption in Low-Income Communities report.

edit30: Buffet gets crisis communications

Buffett ‘Gets’ Crisis Communications. (2010, March 1). edit30 …insight for business communicators. Retrieved March 4, 2010, from http://edit30.com/2010/03/01/buffett-gets-crisis-communications/

Quotes his to the point saying on crisis comm in regards to Toyata’s troubles on CNBC’s Squak Box:

“Get it right;
“Get it fast;
“Get it out; and
“Get it over.”

Get the transcript (thanks for posting it, CNBC).

Collectanea: Jaszi on UCLA & streaming entire movies

Jaszi, P. (2010, March 3). UCLA To Start Streaming Entire Movies Online Again (©ollectanea). collectanea. Retrieved March 4, 2010, from http://chaucer.umuc.edu/blogcip/collectanea/2010/03/ucla_to_start_streaming_entire.html

Posted to VIDEOLIB list today, thank you.  An excerpt:

Before going too much farther, I should state, in very strong terms, that I agree completely that there should be no difference in the type and amount of materials available to the F2F student and the online student.

Adage: Hulu loses Viacom, ‘Stewart’ and ‘Colbert’

Learmonth, M. (2010, March 3). Hulu Loses Viacom, Comedy Central Shows. Adage.com. Retrieved March 3, 2010, from http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=142390

Too bad.  Learmonth cits Hulu’s Sr VP of content & distribution John Forssell’s blog:

In a blog post, Hulu’s senior VP of content and distribution, John Forssell, wrote, “We’ve had very strong results for both Hulu and for Comedy Central, in terms of the views and the revenue we’ve generated … we’ve driven steadily increasing revenue per view as advertisers voted with their budgets to take advantage of innovative ad formats and very strong advertising effectiveness.”

UCLA Newsroom: Campus to restart streaming of instructional video content

This was recently posted to the VIDEOLIB list serv, thank you.

Hampton, P. (2010, March 3). Campus to restart streaming of instructional video content / UCLA Newsroom. UCLA Newsroom. Retrieved March 3, 2010, from http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/campus-to-re-start-streaming-of-154601.aspx

Senate Holds Hearings on Censorship of Internet

Alerted from the Media Law Prof Blog.  Here is a link to the Hearing on C-SPAN. & the abstract from C-SPAN:

Following Google’s announcement that they would no longer abide by the Chinese government’s censorship laws, the Senate Judiciary Subcmte. looked at business practices in China and discussed the issue of global Internet freedom. Google representatives testified on the rights of their business partners and censorship of Google’s online products.
Washington, DC : 1 hr. 49 min.

OJR: Creation or aggregation

Niles, R. (2010, March 2). Creation or aggregation: What is the real added value of today’s journalism? Retrieved March 3, 2010, from http://www.ojr.org/ojr/people/robert/201003/1827/

Niles (whose article came from a WAN-IFRA Conference presentation) speaks of the aggregation –not in terms of database providers (as we do in library sciences) — but from the Info Tech / Social Media sphere (Google News & Facebook).   Libraries & vendors will have to consider the journalism – free content aggregators as we sort out content access in the future.  We’ll continue to evaluate the “added value” of commercial vendors as we move forward.

RCFP: Sup Ct rules freelancer settlement can stand

Tamiz-Robeledo, N. (2010, March 2). Supreme Court rules freelancer settlement can stand. Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Retrieved March 3, 2010, from http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=11282

Muchnick, I. (2010, March 3). Supreme Court’s Muchnick Ruling Keeps Dream of a Fair Royalty System Alive. BeyondChron. Retrieved March 3, 2010, from http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Supreme_Court_s_i_Muchnick_i_Ruling_Keeps_Dream_of_a_Fair_Royalty_System_Alive_7869.html

From Muchnick, a journalist:

The reason the Court’s action is good news is that it keeps alive the dream of a reasonable royalty system for re-use of copyrighted works in new media. This, in turn, would empower independent creators – who currently lie prostrate before big publishers – and enhance the diversity and vitality of American culture.

Here is the Slip Opinion from the Sup Ct.

Liptak, A. (2010, March 3). Justices Reinstate Settlement With Writers. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/business/media/03bizcourt.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1267714869-+NU6pJ074HNSz2FizM3kWA

SSRN: Bittorrent search engines & copyright

Czernliawski, M. (2009, December 20). Czerniawski’s Responsibility of Bittorrent Search Engines for Copyright Infringements by Michal Czerniawski. SSRN. Retrieved March 2, 2010, from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1540913

As seen in Media Law Prof Blog.

Abstract from SSRN:

With the music industry pursuing copyright infringement claims against various parties, the issue addressed in this paper is the responsibility of BitTorrent search engines for copyright infringements.

The paper analyzes the reasoning of the recent and widely-known Swedish Verdict B 13301-06 handed down by the Stockholm District Court. In this decision, the court found The Pirate Bay guilty of making copyrighted works available. The paper explores the consequences of this decision. Next, it applies the verdict’s rationale to the Google search engine.

The paper also analyzes isoHunt search engine’s legal situation in Canada. IsoHunt filed a petition in the Supreme Court of British Columbia applying for orders declaring that its services do not infringe copyright. As the isoHunt case is about authorization, the paper also considers this issue. Furthermore, the paper compares isoHunt search engine with Google search engine.

Summary: This dissertation concludes that: (i) based on the The Pirate Bay rationale Google, if sued in Sweden, might be found liable for copyright infringement as it assists in making available copyright materials to the general public; (ii) under Canadian law, and the CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada and Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada v. Canadian Assn. of Internet Providers rationale, both isoHunt and Google should be found as not authorizing copyright infringement.

MSNBC: you watch Fox? Shame on you.

Reuters. (2010, March 1). Fox dominates indecency complaints. msnbc.com. Retrieved March 2, 2010, from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35642839/ns/entertainment/

Rachel Maddow and the Family Guy received a lot of complaints.

paidContent / L.J. : Reed sells library titles to MediaSource

Kramer, S. D. (2009, March 1). Updated: Reed Sells Library Titles To MediaSource, Publishers Weekly Left Hanging. paidContent. Retrieved March 2, 2010, from http://paidcontent.org/article/419-publishers-weekly-staff-may-learn-fate-today/

The headline speaks.

Library Journal. (2010, March 1). Library Journal, School Library Journal Bought by Media Source. Retrieved March 2, 2010, from http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6720812.html?desc=topstory

MediaSource’s site: here