Weekend Linkroll 07-19-08
July 19, 2008
PlagiarismToday / Jonathan Bailey
It was yet another busy week for copyright news with stories about Macs, Google and even Orks. This is an episode that you do not want to miss.
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July 19, 2008
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Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. The ruling comes as part of Google's legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement.
Monetizing YouTube: Google’s Nuclear Option
July 18, 2008
HipMojo.com / Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
During the Great Depression, farmers would destroy crops in order to create some kind of floor price for their fruits and vegetables, even though many of their fellow citizens were starving to death. John Steinbeck chronicles this plight in Grapes of Wrath, a book I will pretend to have read (I actually read some [.
Hollywood Sees Less Green as Financing Dries Up
July 18, 2008
DealBook / DealBook
The collapse of Paramount Pictures’ and Deutsche Bank’s $450 million film financing deal earlier this week underscores how dramatically the credit crisis is affecting Hollywood. The Los Angeles Times reported that the pullback could see studios start to scramble to find alternative sources of capital to help mitigate risk on their movie slates as production and [.
The Web Week in Review
July 18, 2008
E-consultancy - Internet Marketing News and Blogs / Drama 2.0
Drama 2.0's The Web Week in the Review focuses in on big companies (and big money) this week.
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July 18, 2008
Needcoffee.com / Widge
Okay, so Audible just did a bit called "Dueling Narrators" where they put audiobook readers of the same work up against each other in a kind of Iron Reader sort of deal. The much beloved Jim Dale beat out Tim Curry for reading Peter Pan.
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July 18, 2008
Linux Today
LWN.net: "Google's purchase of YouTube always seemed questionable to some observers: it looked as if Google were buying itself a whole new source of copyright lawsuits. One of the benefits of that purchase came through on July 2, when a U.
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