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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged free culture

1. August 24, 2012 01:55 AM

   Audit Notes: Gawker’s Bain scoop, file sharing and record sales, Niall Ferguson

   A document dump raises questions about tax strategies

   By Ryan Chittum

   Gawker's John Cook got hold of 950 pages of confidential Bain Capital documents related to Mitt Romney and put them online, writing that, "The documents are exceedingly complicated. We don't pretend to be qualified to decode them in full, which is why we are posting them here for readers to help evaluate—please leave your thoughts in the discussion below." The...

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2. November 21, 2012 06:50 AM

   Audit Notes: the free model, Coulson and Brooks, another DOJ stunt

   A musician writes a compelling business argument against Pandora

   By Ryan Chittum

   The free model isn't just a failure for newspapers. It doesn't work in music either, as this terrific Pitchfork piece by former Galaxie 500 co-founder Damon Krukowski shows. Krukowski discloses some of his band's royalty payments from Pandora and Spotify. For one song, played 7,800 times on Pandora in the first three months of the year, the band got 21...

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