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Category Archives: commodification

News Corp is the user – You are the producer

By gtdonovan | Published: 10.26.2009
It’s Rupert Murdoch’s Internet, you just live in it – or so Murdoch argues in his World Media Summit speech. PaidContent.org has posted a transcript of the speech Murdoch delivered in Beijing on 10/09/09. It’s a three part speech with one message: if you use the Internet, whether you’re the People’s Republic of China or [...]
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Twitter changes TOS: THEY own YOUR tweets

By gtdonovan | Published: 10.01.2009
Twitter recently changed their Terms of Service (i.e. TOS). They (somewhat) address the changes in a blog post, that generally outline each change, most notable their new found ability to advertise and their redefinition of ownership: Ownership—Twitter is allowed to “use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute” your tweets because that’s what [...]
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Grinch Alert: Rupert Murdoch

By gtdonovan | Published: 08.28.2009
According to Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corp: We intend to charge for our news websites. The Wall Street Journal‘s WSJ.com is the world’s most successful paid news site and we will be using our profitable experience there and the resulting unique skills throughout News Corp to increase our revenues from all our content. And [...]
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Grinch Alert: Robert Iger

By gtdonovan | Published: 08.27.2009
According to PaidContent.org, Robert Iger (CEO of Walt Disney Co.) recently stated: Our product is extremely valuable … and if we are offering it on another platform or in another location for the consumer to access it, I believe that’s more value we are delivering [to a distributor or consumer] and we should get paid appropriately. If [...]
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Grinch Alert: Barry Diller

By gtdonovan | Published: 07.28.2009
According to Bloomberg.com, Barry Diller (Chairman and CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp) has joined a growing list of corporate executives trying to convince the public that they should pay for the online content that has largely been produced by the public — for free: “It is not free, and is not going to be,” Diller said today at [...]
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