Apr 5 2009
Rupert Murdoch, losing money on his print publications, is turning his eyes toward Google, accusing the search engine of stealing copyrights. (I’m guessing that Murdoch isn’t a big fan of the fair use doctrine). It’s pretty easy to exclude your material from Google and I would think that Murdoch could afford to hire a tech [...]
Nov 14 2007
The book world is abuzzing with the complaint filed by Judith Regan, former head of Regan Publishing, a division of HarperCollins. No one can deny that Regan was a success. In her complaint, she alleges that she generated over $1B in sales. Fifteen of Regan’s books were NYT Bestsellers with five of them being in [...]
Sep 25 2007
Rupert Murdoch consummated a deal to buy Dow Jones & Co for $5.6 billion and now is urging the board to make the online Journal free. The Wall Street Journal currently charges $99 and is the only major news site that has an online fee now that the New York Times has eliminated the subscription [...]
Jun 4 2007
The idea of Rupert Murdoch owning the Wall Street Journal is enough to put shivers down the back of any one in search of “fair and balanced” news but that reality might come sooner than we think. Rupert Murdoch is in talks with the Bancroft Family to have News Corp. (parent corporation of Harper Collins, [...]
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