Does Rupert Murdoch understand copyright?

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Rupert Murdoch has gone on the offensive to justify his plan to put his newspaper’s websites behind a paywall. He told a National Press Club event at George Washington University: “We are going to stop people like Google or Microsoft or whoever from taking stories for nothing … there is a law of copyright and they recognise it.” In an interview with Martin Kalb for The Kalb Report, Murdoch set out what the search engines would be permitted to do: “We’ll be very happy if they just publish our headline or a sentence or two and that’s followed by a...

Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 04:20:31 AM

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National Write Your Congressman (Vanity)

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My sister has asked me to share in the cost of subscribing to this organization. Other than the organization's own website, very little information comes up with Google and Yahoo search.

Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 04:20:31 AM

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Man charged $28,000 for using data card, Slingbox to watch football game

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  While waiting for a Caribbean cruise liner to set sail from the Port of Miami last November, a Chicago native with an AT&T wireless card and Slingbox decided to catch the Bears vs. Lions football game on his laptop. The end result? A $28,067.31 bill from for international data charges, despite the ship never leaving the harbor. Apparently the card was picking up a signal it shouldn't have, and while the bill was eventually dropped to $290.65 after a considerable number of calls to customer service, let that be a warning to mobile users traveling on the fringe...

Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 04:20:31 AM

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Should Free Republic become a paid subscription service?

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I am not certain what the legal ramifications would be in changing Free Republic from donations to a subscription service. It seems to me the switch may be detrimental to legal issues such as copyrights. If that is true I'd appreciate if someone could briefly explain that to me. However if that is not the case here is my suggestion: I have been wondering about this for some time now and have not seen any discussions about it. So I would like to ask: Is it time for Free Republic to become an online subscription service? Currently, the site is...

Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 04:20:31 AM

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Free Subscription To Accuracy In Media's "AIM Report"

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Accuracy In Media is now offering free AIM Reports! For a limited time, Accuracy In Media the nation’s oldest media watchdog is eliminating the basic subscription fee to it’s hard hitting newsletter the AIM Report. No catch and no strings just click the link and fill out the online form to start your free subscription. For over 3O years the AIM Report has exposed the liberal bias of the mainstream media and now you can read the same information thousands of others have been receiving for years. Along with each issue of the AIM Report will be postcards that you...

Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 04:20:31 AM

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GLobe and Mail charging for On Line Access (my title)

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Just wanted to warn fellow freepers that it looks like Canada's biggest newspapers now requires a paid subscription to access on line articles. In particular, the editorials, letters and columnists are affected. I guess they were sick of us south of the border reading their socialist nonsense and were tired of us complaining Fox News isn't seen there.

Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 04:20:31 AM

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Human Events -- Anyone Subscribe to it? (Vanity)

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I already get a lot of great reading material from townhall.com and frontpagemag.com. Does anybody subscribe to Human Events? Is it worth the subscription price? Would you suggest NRO or any other periodical that may be better? Any thoughts? Thanks so much !

Published on Friday 30th of July 2010 04:20:31 AM

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