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Can you use 30 secs of audio without payment? “The defence here is fair dealing. It works for printed material, extracts of books, plays, films etc. So long as your extract does not extract the entire value of the original material you should be ok. Remember you have to accredit the original source”
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“Pirc pointed to Pedraic Fallon, the chairman of Euromoney Institutional Investor – in which DMGT holds a 66 per cent stake – whose bonus for last year was set at 15 times his salary, saying the total remuneration “is considered to be potentially excessive”. “
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There’s a lot of assumptions here. Who’s to say that tablet/e-readers will take off, or that consumers will be converted to paying for anything online?
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The Year of Mobile? Again, probably not: “The study, which focused on 2,000 people over the age of 16 living in the UK, found, among other things, that only 10% of mobile phone owners access the Internet on a daily basis.”
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Imagine what the iPad could do for classic/new titles…
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If you’re trading profitably why not tell us how much you made?
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“Online video production specialist Video Direct has been chosen by IPC Magazines to supply video production services to its online classified directory advertisers. They are the first publisher to offer these services to advertisers.”
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It is, it always has been, and always will be a gimmick.
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If you are interested in a.nother article on the Apple machine, we think @psmith’s round up piece for Journalism.co.uk is as good as we have seen.
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“Yesterday The Guardian’s editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger slammed paywalls, saying users of the model could “sleepwalk into oblivion’” That’s exactly not what he said.
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In other words, what’s the point of it? “…there’s little incentive to use SeeSaw over another service that offers the same videos – broadcasters’ own sites, for example, include much of the surrounding data and more about their own shows.”
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Another Chrome extension…
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“Political blogger Adam Bienkov, who submitted the FoI request…” Full marks to Standard for giving credit where it’s due
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Harsh words, but it’s hard to disagree with him. Trouble is, it won’t make any difference. “I hope American and British readers (and readers throughout the world) will finally wake up to the reality of British journalism: You just cannot believe what you read in British newspapers”
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You must be f-ing joking? Is this what workies have to do at the Telegraph? “It got worse. Once Ed had finished alphabetising a decade’s worth of business cards for me, booked reservations at the Ivy (posing as my PA) and spent an afternoon scouring London for a Tintin desk diary (A5, Ed, not A4 – back out you go, my boy), a co-worker took him home to clean out her bins”
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Craig is on the money: “The platform isn’t the problem, it’s that there’s not enough content providers been hired by the press to provide exclusive content. And don’t say that if the iThingy apps are a success more journalists will be hired. The history of journalism and profits show that the majority of profits go to the shareholders, not to improving the titles.”
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The story of We7 could be a metaphor for so many music start-ups: “This could be a make-or-break year for We7 – launched in 2007 with funding from investors including Peter Gabriel, the original idea was to offer free downloads with embedded audio ads, but that didn’t work out; now it offers both streaming and a la carte purchases, and visual ads in those embeds – a great idea because ad agencies are more used to ad banners than audio pre-rolls and because, if We7 can make itself a platform for embedding music anywhere, its potential outgoing ad impressions could spiral up.”
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It comes to something when publishing types write poems about it.
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Murdoch on Rusbridger: “Kooky,” was his description. “And what’s with the way his hair falls in his face?” Murdoch asked once, scowling in his dark way, about Rusbridger’s bangs and mop-top. “How old is he? He looks like a kid.”
