January 28, 2001
Online Journalism Review: Soul-Searching Time at Online News Units.
As nearly every week brings word of a new round of layoffs and cutbacks in new media, current and former online staffers, executives and industry analysts are surveying the wreckage and wondering whether the reluctant, often testy romance between media companies and the Internet has come to an end.
Online Journalism Review: Dot-com Content Sites Get Creative.
"What investor would invest in content after all the criticism it's taken?" says Michael O'Donnell, president of Salon. As a result, content sites have had to morph into something more. And the year ahead may mark the end of thinking about them exclusively as Web sites.
Wired News: DeCSS Allies Ganging Up.
A federal court decision that restricted a DVD-descrambling program ignores free speech rights and should be overturned, eight different coalitions claim. The groups, representing everyone from cryptographers to journalists, have ganged up to attack the ruling in separate amicus briefs...
News.Com: Radio stations sue to overturn Webcasting fees.
The broadcasters sued in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia Thursday to overturn the decision that record companies are entitled to royalties when a station transmits music programming on a Web site. An arbitration panel will set the exact amount.
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