We woke up this morning to several interesting articles on happenings within the digital marketplace and thought you might find them interesting as well.
Will CNN buy Mashable?
Twitter was abuzz Sunday evening and this morning with news that CNN was planning a $200 Million purchase of social media new site Mashable. It was originally reported by Reuters blogger Felix Salmon and later confirmed by the New York Times.
What do you think – is CNN going to acquire Mashable?
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation, “Court Declares Newspaper Excerpt on Online Forum is a Non-Infringing Fair Use”:
Late Friday, the federal district court in Nevada issued a declaratory judgment that makes it harder for copyright holders to file lawsuits over excerpts of material and burden online forums and their users with nuisance lawsuits.
The judgment – part of the nuisance lawsuit avalanche started by copyright troll Righthaven – found that Democratic Underground did not infringe the copyright in a Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper article when a user of the online political forum
posted a five-sentence excerpt, with a link back to the newspaper’s website.
A Code of Conduct for Content Aggregators
In this New York Times piece posted yesterday, David Carr discusses how ‘Words like ‘curation’ and ‘aggregation’ became the language of the realm, sometimes used as substitutes for describing the actual creation of content.”
In the ongoing balance of information sharing and giving credit where it’s due, the article talks with two groups hoping to find an agreeable solution.
Read more.
