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1. August 27, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: China slows, Romney’s taxes, copyright

   Inventories pile up, posing another threat to the global economy

   By Ryan Chittum

   The New York Times looks at a glut of goods clogging up Chinese warehouses—an ominous sign for the global economy: Problems in China give some economists nightmares in which, in the worst case, the United States and much of the world slip back into recession as the Chinese economy sputters, the European currency zone collapses and political gridlock paralyzes the...

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2. January 30, 2012 07:56 PM

   Audit Notes: Data Pool 3, The UK Prints, Copyright

   By Ryan Chittum

   Scotland Yard arrested four top current and former Sun journalists and a cop. The Guardian's Nick Davies gives us the context and says it's a major development: And technicians have retrieved an enormous reservoir of material from News International's central computer servers, including one particularly vast collection that may yet prove to be the stick that breaks the media mogul's...

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3. November 6, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: digital ads, margins of error, freehadists

   French publishing's online revenues make the Americans look good

   By Ryan Chittum

   This New York Times story is nice on the coming attempt in Europe to get Google to pay content providers for selling ads against their headlines. But this stat from the head of France's newspaper and magazine association caught my eye (emphasis mine) : In countries like Germany, France and Italy, where news sites’ online audiences are more limited by...

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4. August 21, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: Fake or real Jeff Jarvis?, Wolf on Ryan, robots and labor

   Replacing copyright with something called "creditright"

   By Ryan Chittum

   This may seem like a Fake Jeff Jarvis post, but it's real-life Jeff Jarvis: Creators don’t need protection from copying. That’s futile. Copying can’t be stopped. Thus copying is no longer a way to exploit the value of creation. People don't need protection from stealing. That's futile. Stealing can't be stopped. So what do creators need protected? What are their...

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5. August 10, 2012 09:28 PM

   Audit Notes: Google moves on copyright, The Daily Shoe, Olympics

   As its business interest aligns with content producers

   By Ryan Chittum

   Google will finally begin to penalize pirate sites in its search algorithm. What took so long? The Wall Street Journal is very good to put this context up high: The move comes as Google itself is attempting to become a major seller and distributor of professional video and music content through a variety of services, from its YouTube video site...

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6. February 7, 2012 12:38 AM

   Audit Notes: Regressive Taxes, Another Task Force, Keller on Copyright

   By Ryan Chittum

   Kevin Drum looks at how regressive taxes are at the state and local level, an issue that doesn't get nearly enough attention. While the federal system is progressive overall, even after taking into account payroll taxes, the well-off pay far less of their income in state and local taxes than the poor do. I live in Seattle, a very liberal...

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7. July 19, 2012 10:57 AM

   Copyright and punishment

   A panel of Internet entrepreneurs tackle property rights in the digital age

   By Hazel Sheffield

   “I’m a copyright moderate, but I get painted as a radical!” moaned the author Rob Reid to a woman clutching a plastic cup of wine in the Housing Works bookshop in downtown Manhattan on Wednesday night. Reid founded the music-streaming service Rhapsody in 2001, sold it to MTV for $230 million six years later, and has just published a novel...

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8. October 12, 2011 11:30 AM

   Defining “Fair Use” for the Digital Age

   Aufderheide and Jaszi on how to put the balance back in copyright

   By David Riedel

   Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put the Balance Back in Copyright | By Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi | University of Chicago Press | 216 pages, $17.00 Say you’re an aspiring documentary filmmaker and your subject of choice is the east coast-west coast hip-hop rivalry of the 1990s. It’s likely in your documentary that at some point you’ll focus on...

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