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Engaged Reading Digest: Radicalisation, Copyright and Piers Members Public

Get ready for another week at the journalism coalface with some essential weekend reading…

Adam Tinworth
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How journalists behave when your video goes viral Members Public

How journalists behave when your video goes viral [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/c9b6250d-6557-4968-b0ce-e6eef3e04dfb] Journalist Marc Settle found his video suddenly of great interest to a wider new media than just his employer, the BBC: > Broadly, their behaviour fell in to one of three categories: a)

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Tired of "aggregators" stealing his pics, a photographer sues Members Public

One photographer has had enough of a viral content site nicking his photos [http://petapixel.com/2015/07/31/this-is-what-it-looks-like-to-sue-a-viral-clickbait-site-for-photo-copyright-infringement/?curator=onemanandhisblog] : > California-based photographer Jeff Werner has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular website ViralNova for publishing (and profiting from) his photos without his permission. Theft is

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Adam Tinworth
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Pando's nicking my photos again Members Public

Here we go again. In the past I’ve had to call Pando out for reusing my photos without attribution and payment. The last time they ‘fessed up, coughed up and I donated the proceeds to Cancer Research: > I work with PandoDaily on the financial side of the business.

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Adam Tinworth
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Flickr embraces the public domain Members Public

This is an interesting move: > But we’ve heard from our community that we’re missing two important designations: Public Domain and Creative Commons 0 (CC0). Many members of our community want to be able to upload images that are no longer protected by copyright and correctly tag them

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Adam Tinworth
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YouTube celebs: the consumer mags of the future? Members Public

A music label is suing YouTube star Michelle Phan [http://michellephan.com] for using its music [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28418449]: > The label and its publishing arm claim she has used about 50 of their songs without permission in her YouTube videos and on her own website.

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Adam Tinworth
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Automattic & a student journalist sue PR for DCMA takedown damages Members Public

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, is teaming with a student journalist to sue a “Straight Rights” organisation’s press officer for abusing the DMCA takedown process [http://torrentfreak.com/wordpress-demands-10000-dmca-takedown-abuse-140615/]: > Hotham wrote an article about “Straight Pride UK” which included a comment he received from the organization’s

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Adam Tinworth
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John Perry Barlow at LeWeb in London

LeWeb : John Perry Barlow's lessons from the original digital hippie Members Public

What’s the best way to become a hippie? Write songs for the Grateful Dead which is exactly what John Perry Barlow [https://twitter.com/JPBarlow] used to do. By definition almost, a hippie is someone impractical, who has gone off to the woods, with moss on one side of

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Adam Tinworth
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