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Copyrighting facts: Owning the news

June 24th, 2010 | No Comments

Copyrighting facts as well as words

FACTS, ruled America’s Supreme Court in 1918 in the “hot news doctrine”, cannot be copyrighted. But a news agency can retain exclusive use of its product so long as it has a commercial value. Now newspapers, fed up with stories being “scraped” by other websites, want that ruling made into law.

The idea is floated in a discussion document published by the Federal Trade Commission, which is holding hearings on the news industry’s future. Media organisations would have the exclusive right, for a predetermined period, to publish their material online. The draft also considers curtailing fair use, the legal principle that allows search engines to reproduce headlines and links, so long as the use is selective and transformative (as with a list of search results). Jeff Jarvis, who teaches journalism students to become entrepreneurs at New York’s City University, says this sounds like an attempt to protect newspapers more than journalism. …

Will Google Sidewiki Steal Traffic from Bloggers?

September 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Recently launched annotation service Google Sidewiki draws criticism from BuzzMachine blogger Jeff Jarvis, who raises concerns such as that users may opt to leave comments on Sidewiki instead of on bloggers’ posts. Dozens of other companies, including Google, have tried annotation services in the past. Google is defending Sidewiki, but there may be fallout.
– Some bloggers are in a snit over a new commenting system from Google they
fear will divert reader responses from their blog posts to the search engine.
Google doesn’t believe bloggers have anything to worry about. It’s one more
joust between the world’s leading search engine and publishers.
Buzz…

Your media choices as part of your personal brand?

August 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Another intelligent if slightly idiosyncratic take on the “pay for news” discussion from Simon Jenkins in The Guardian; a paper whose editor Alan Rusbridger – under the influence of “dead tree press is dead” media evangelist Jeff Jarvis – is doing a lot o thinking on the issue himself.
Jenkins talks of a friend [...]

Some thoughts on PR as it is right now

April 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Barely a day goes by without newspaper headlines – ironically â€“ in the UK and overseas about papers downsizing or even closing. The threat to journalists’ jobs, editorial quality and to the service papers provide to their communities is rightly front of mind.
But for those in the PR consultancy sector there is another issue to [...]

Why not writing a story is innovation

December 8th, 2008 | No Comments

Discussions about journalism innovation usually focus on technology: Twitter, RSS, Flash, Django, data visualization, and all the other cool stuff that’s making online news so rich.
But there’s an equally important conceptual aspect of journalism innovation. Newsrooms have to rethink the kind of stories they cover and the way they tell those stories, or all the [...]

The market and the internet donâ€™t care if you make money

November 10th, 2008 | No Comments

The title of this post comes straight from the mind-blowing mind of Seth Godin, preaching to the book industry (promoting his book Tribes), but he could just as easily be preaching to anyone in media:
[T]he market and the internet don’t care if you make money. That’s important to say. You have no right to make [...]

The New AP

October 8th, 2008 | No Comments

Matt Thompson and Jeff Jarvis have been doing some important thinking on how news coverage needs to change in the Internet Age. They argue that a flow of shallow, time-dependent stories no longer works as a foundation for helping readers understand the world.
Thompson started a blog devoted to exploring an alternative. He writes in the [...]

Evolution of the Newswire on the Web

September 11th, 2008 | No Comments

Jeff Jarvis has post today worth reading, about the emergence of the web as the new newswire and the trend away from traditional newswires like AP:
The old syndication model in the old content economy just won’t work today when all the world needs is one copy of a story up in the cloud with links [...]