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...MIT’s pledge to share its entire curriculum, and to place its entire institution behind this ambitious effort, could transform the way in which content is made available to all who want access to it,” commented William G. Bowen, president of the Mellon Foundation...
...Deal ends up being simple: AOL TW provides the content, from The Sopranos and Madonna on demand to TIME magazine. And Microsoft provides the transactional software--an AOL link built right into the operating system. The companies work together to steer eyeballs. Then they split the billions of dollars of take...
...things instead of what they're saying," says Paul Begala, who saw his share of trouble as an adviser to Bill Clinton. In 1994, as Clinton pressed his health-care overhaul and lurched toward a wipeout in the midterm elections, his advisers insisted it was the delivery, not the content, that was turning off the public. "Guess what? It was the content," says Begala. "So we changed. We had to." Bush's predicament is not so dire. Robert Teeter, co-author of the nbc News/Wall Street Journal poll that caused some anguish in the White House last week, says there...
...these artists pay a price for their souls? Perhaps. At least one work was rejected for content - the original cover by Dan Clowes, creator of "Eightball" and easily one of America's top five comix makers. It cost DC plenty to reject it, not only the kill-fee to Clowes, who said he would be "happy" to provide "inflammatory quotes," for this piece, but also the book's original designer, Chip Kidd, who quit in protest. One of America's top book designers, Kidd has said he would be "loathe" to work for DC's comics division ever again...
...Justices Stevens and Breyer dissenting, that freelance writers who sell their work to print media retain the right to decide if and when their articles are reprinted electronically. The decision, which at first blush appears a financial windfall for a growing population of freelancers, could wind up hurting the content of online research databases. Some media analysts are already predicting publishing companies may simply drop online content created by freelancers, rather than get involved in the complexities of electronic rights. If a writer refuses to grant electronic rights to a story, or a media company refuses to pay for stories...