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| 1241: |  Web Readibility for Long PagesFonts, line height, content width -- it all matters. Here our members share their knowledge on how to make a long content page readable. | Content, Writing and Copyright | Feb 3, 2006 | ||
| 1242: | WSJ's professional journalists opinion on "Original Content" "My beef, actually, is with the search engines and the economics of the modern Web. Google, for example, says its mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." The way that's written, one thinks perhaps of a satellite orbiting high above the earth, capturing all its information but interfering with nothing. In fact, search engines are more like a TV camera crew let loose in the middle of a crowd of rowdy fans after a game. Seeing the camera, everyone acts boorishly and jostles to get in front. The act of observing something changes it." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Mar 3, 2006 | ||
| 1243: | Review Site Concerns How Serious Are Libel Considerations? | Content, Writing and Copyright | Mar 30, 2006 | ||
| 1244: | A good way to fix those typos "My right hand works quicker than my left, so I get letters the wrong way round and I have a penchant for capitalizing words for no good reason in the middle of a sentence." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Apr 3, 2006 | ||
| 1245: | Congress eyes broad new digital copyright bill "A proposed copyright law seen by CNET News.com would expand the DMCA's restrictions on software that can bypass copy protections and grant federal police more wiretapping and enforcement powers." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Apr 24, 2006 | ||
| 1246: | Court Says 'No' to Apple, Upholds Confidentiality Law for Web Journalists NY Times: "A California appeals court ruled Friday that online reporters are protected by the same confidentiality laws that protect traditional journalists, striking a blow to efforts by Apple Computer to identify people who leaked confidential company data..." | Content, Writing and Copyright | May 28, 2006 | ||
| 1247: | Creative Commons comes to Microsoft Office "Microsoft and the Creative Commons on Wednesday plan to release a free tool that will let people attach a Creative Commons copyright license to Microsoft Office documents." | Content, Writing and Copyright | June 22, 2006 | ||
| 1248: | YouTube Sued Over Copyright Infringement "A journalist and well-known helicopter pilot in Los Angeles has filed suit against video-sharing site YouTube, claiming that it encouraged users to violate copyright law." | Content, Writing and Copyright | July 19, 2006 | ||
| 1249: | Tips For Writing Short Articles For The Web "How do you manage to write short articles. What kind of technique do you use?" | Content, Writing and Copyright | Aug 24, 2006 | ||
| 1250: | Microsoft's Digital Rights Management (DRM) Cracked "... have created a program that circumvents Microsoft's Digital Rights Management System (DRM)." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Aug 29, 2006 | ||
| 1251: | Content Is King "Everyone agrees that content is king, but what exactly constitutes good content?" | Content, Writing and Copyright | Sept 7, 2006 | ||
| 1252: | Arthur Schiff Dies - Copywriter Behind Ginsu Knives "It slices bread so thin, your relatives will never come back! 'But Wait! There's More!'" | Content, Writing and Copyright | Sept 9, 2006 | ||
| 1253: | Universal Music Threatens MySpace, YouTube Universal Music CEO: "We believe these new businesses are copyright infringers and owe us tens of millions of dollars..." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Sept 15, 2006 | ||
| 1254: | YouTube and Warner in a Landmark Deal "Videos by Warner's artists can be used in return for a slice of advertising revenue. The agreement also covers the use of material in homemade videos, which form a large part of YouTube's content." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Sept 20, 2006 | ||
| 1255: | Tips For Easing 5Mb PDF eBook File Downloads "Visitors had started downloading but either given up or been unable to download the files. How can I make the experience more successful for visitors?" | Content, Writing and Copyright | Sept 21, 2006 | ||
| 1256: | Publishers Aim For Some Control Of Search Results "Global publishers, fearing that Web search engines such as Google Inc. are encroaching on their ability to generate revenue, plan to launch an automated system for granting permission on how to use their content. " | Content, Writing and Copyright | Sept 22, 2006 | ||
| 1257: | Publishers Find Technology Agreement With Search Engines "The World Association of Newspapers, European Publishers Council, International Publishers Association and European Newspaper Publishers' Association are backing ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol), an automated system that allows online publishers to provide information about access to and use of their content. The information is provided in a form that can be recognised and interpreted by search engine crawlers and details the terms under which content can be used. " | Content, Writing and Copyright | Sept 26, 2006 | ||
| 1258: | Texas Court Confused on Deep Linking "A court in Dallas, Texas has found a website operator liable for copyright infringement because his site linked to an 'audio webcast' without permission. Observers have criticised the judge for failing to understand the internet." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Jan 25, 2007 | ||
| 1259: | Writers' Block: Breaking Out With Ten Simple Ideas "Have you ever had one of those days/weeks/months when you can't get that writing project started?" | Content, Writing and Copyright | Feb 6, 2007 | ||
| 1260: | Belgian Newspaper Group in Talks Over Copyright Row With Google ""Internet users interested in Belgian news and users of Google's search engine may have noticed today that the Web sites of the Belgian French and German-language daily newspapers ... are again referenced on the search engine," a joint statement issued by Google and Copiepresse said." | Content, Writing and Copyright | May 4, 2007 | ||
| 1261: | Company Will Track and "Fingerprint" Associated Press Content "Attributor CEO and co-founder Jim Brock calls the "DNA" of the material, which boils down to a specific paragraph or a few sentences. With that information, Attributor can watch where the content is going in turn giving publishers a map. Publishers can then determine where, how, and when the content is used." | Content, Writing and Copyright | June 1, 2007 | ||
| 1262: | Writing in Voices: I Have Many! I tend to linger in places where the air is one of authenticity - the marriage of voice, context and content. How can we apply this to our sites? | Content, Writing and Copyright | June 2, 2007 | ||
| 1263: | Advantages of Blogspot Blog vs.Web Site Blog "What are the advantages / disadvantages of using a Blogspot blog for this project as opposed to publishing on my own site without a blog structure?" | Content, Writing and Copyright | June 22, 2007 | ||
| 1264: | Using My Photographs of Public Objects on Websites "So, what's the situation with taking a photograph of that sculpture in the park? Can anyone take a picture and put it on their website, sell postcards, etc.? Or, must you contact the town of Smith for permission? Or, must you contact the original artist of the sculpture or his/her heirs? | Content, Writing and Copyright | July 2, 2007 | ||
| 1265: | Wikipedia has my content! What to do when your content turns up on Wikipedia... Plus, who's liable for lost ad revenue on the original site? | Content, Writing and Copyright | Sept 26, 2007 | ||
| 1266: | Flickr Photo Used Without Permission "Four months later, she and her family are in Federal District Court in Dallas suing for damages." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Oct 5, 2007 | ||
| 1267: | Internet Media Companies Agree to Copyright Protection Guidelines "They agreed to use technology to eliminate copyright-infringing content uploaded by Web users and to block any pirated material before it is publicly accessible." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Oct 18, 2007 | ||
| 1268: | Wikipedia Cleared in French Defamation Case Court determines that web site hosts cannot be liable under civil law because of information stored on them if they do not in fact know of their illicit nature. | Content, Writing and Copyright | Nov 6, 2007 | ||
| 1269: | Murdoch To Drop WSJ.com Subscription Fees Rupert Murdoch says he'll drop the subscription fee for the online Wall Street Journal, hoping to more than make up the difference in advertising revenue. | Content, Writing and Copyright | Nov 14, 2007 | ||
| 1270: | Web Access Cut For Music & Film Pirates In France "Under the agreement, drawn up by a commission headed by the chief executive of FNAC, one of France's biggest music and film retailers, service providers will issue warning messages to customers downloading files illegally." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Nov 26, 2007 | ||
| 1271: | Time to Update Your Copyright Year "I know it is early in the year, but before you forget you may want to update the copyright year on your websites." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Jan 5, 2008 | ||
| 1272: | Are Site Links Subject to Copyright? "Is linking to a site in any way a copyright issue?" | Content, Writing and Copyright | Jan 21, 2008 | ||
| 1273: | Iris Scans Could Help Protect Photograph Copyright "The system works by scanning the iris as the eye is put to the viewfinder when the shot is composed." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Feb 24, 2008 | ||
| 1274: | Best Ways to Prevent Plagiarism | Content, Writing and Copyright | Apr 15, 2008 | ||
| 1275: | Writers Want Laws To Maintain Internet Freedom "Writers are pushing for legislation to guarantee the Internet's status as an open forum for communication." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Apr 22, 2008 | ||
| 1276: | TorrentSpy Parent, Valence Media, Hit By $110Million Fine "In a four-page final ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper entered the multimillion-dollar judgment against TorrentSpy parent company Valence Media for wilfully inducing, contributing and vicariously allowing copyright infringement on its Web site." | Content, Writing and Copyright | May 8, 2008 | ||
| 1277: | Orphan Works Copyright Legislation Proposed "What they are trying to accomplish is to allow usage of orphaned copyrighted material so that many potentially important materials may be included in publications and documentaries, after a good faith search fails to locate the author, to avoid massive copyright lawsuits including statutory penalties." | Content, Writing and Copyright | May 12, 2008 | ||
| 1278: | Paraphrasing - When Is It Plagiarism? "WebmasterWorld members discuss the evergreen topic of plagiarism." | Content, Writing and Copyright | May 19, 2008 | ||
| 1279: | A.P. Doesn't Want Titles and Short Excerpts Used "According to the following, the A.P. is going after a webmaster for posting article titles and brief excerpts, claiming "Fair Use" does not permit this practice." | Content, Writing and Copyright | June 16, 2008 | ||
| 1280: | Court Ruling Says Free Software, Open Source, Can Be Protected "...the federal appeals court in Washington said that just because a software programmer gave his work away did not mean it could not be protected." | Content, Writing and Copyright | Aug 14, 2008 | ||
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