The 5th Estate: Citizen News

Publishing Veteran Robert Merry Joins Intelligence Firm STRATFOR.

This treaty would be the first one that is not done for the copyright owner, but for the user of the works — for the blind to make a copyrighted work accessible,” says Manon Ress, a policy analyst at Knowledge Ecology International, a Washington, D.C.-based human rights lobby that helped spearhead the proposal. via Copyright …

McAdams said that more news sites are using aggregation because they'll try anything, but that's not a business model.”If they're looking at aggregation as a strategy, it's kind of hard to do with no personnel,” she said. “Good aggregation requires human intelligence … the whole idea of curation is you've got a human who knows …

How to Make $55,000 by Giving Away Your Work – Digits – WSJ. A self-described “information radical,” Ms. Paley argues that content should be free, while “containers” for content — such as DVDs — should be paid for. To bolster her argument, she disclosed how much she has made from her “free” film in a …

Norwegian Band Told It Can’t Post Its Own Music To The Pirate Bay, Even Though It Wants To | Techdirt.

Cultural Bent Hangs Over Oracle’s Battle for Sun – NYTimes.com. At one level, the sharp exchanges fit a familiar pattern in antitrust disputes between Brussels and American technology companies, including Microsoft and Intel. The Americans tend to portray the European authorities as technically clueless bureaucrats, while the Europeans cast the big American businesses as arrogant …