“The Irish Times will introduce a paywall by the end of 2013, its managing director Liam Kavanagh has confirmed. Kavanagh was speaking on RTE’s ‘Media Show’ this evening, where he confirmed the Times would start charging its readers but had not yet decided which model to introduce …” (more)
[Tom Felle, 27 April]
“A federal court has sided with the Associated Press and the New York Times in a closely-watched case involving a company that scraped news content from the internet without paying for it …” (more)
[Jeff John Roberts, paidContent, 23 March]
“A few days ago, Nate Thayer, a reasonably distinguished 52-year-old journalist, received an email from an editor at the Atlantic. She had read an article he had written and wondered if she could publish a shortened version. He said sure and asked what they paid …” (more)
[Tom Streithorst, Prospect, 8 March]
“Two senior appointments have been announced at the Irish Independent‘s online operation, Independent.ie, the biggest news website on the island …” (more)
[Independent, 7 March]
“Ireland’s Sunday Business Post newspaper is to be put up for sale. The sell-off of the title, which employs 76 people and has a readership of 140,000, is part of a complex overhaul of the ownership and financial affairs of its parent company Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited (TCH) …” (more)
[Independent, 6 March]
“The Irish Examiner and a number of regional print titles and broadcast investments are being acquired by Landmark Media Investments Ltd through a financial restructuring of Thomas Crosbie Holdings Limited after a receiver was appointed to the group …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 6 March]
“The Dublin Evening Herald is to be renamed and rebranded. The Independent News & Media (INM) title will be called The Herald and will be marketed as a morning paper …” (more)
[Roy Greenslade, Guardian, 4 March]
“The lower house of the German parliament, known as the Bundestag, has approved a new bill that would require search engines to pay a license fee for re-publishing content longer than ‘individual words or short excerpts’. The bill passed by a vote of 293 to 243, with three abstentions …” (more)
[Cyrus Farival, Ars Technica, 2 March]
“More than four out of five people in Ireland read a printed newspaper regularly, but only slightly more than one in 10 regularly read newspapers online, new research has found …” (more)
[Laura Slattery, Irish Times, 12 February]
“Here’s an interesting – and crazy – development. If you were to scroll through the posts in this blog, you would find that in many of them I have linked to newspaper reports relevant to the topic. What I didn’t know is that my doing so may have exposed me to a very significant financial risk …” (more)
[Ferdinand von Prondzynski, University Blog, 8 January]
“The Irish newspaper industry has realised there’s easy money to be made from declaring war on its own online readership …” (more)
[David Johnson, Politico.ie, 7 January]
“The organisation which collects money from websites which it says breaks copyright by linking to Irish newspapers has issued a statement on its position following much discussion online …” (more)
[TheJournal.ie, 7 January]
“There is a bit of a storm in a tea cup brewing about whether people and organizations which link to content on another site should pay for the privilege …” (more)
[Careful With That Axe, Eugene, 7 January]
“A claim that links to newspaper articles online should be subject to copyright law is to be raised at the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, committee member Seán Kenny has said …” (more)
[Éanna Ó Caollaí, Irish Times, 5 January]
“I’ve been watching with great interest the debate that has been raging for the last few days with regard to newspapers purportedly charging for links to their articles, as documented here. A clumsy attempt by an industry where many players are struggling to run on quicksand? Sure. A last gasp at revenue by dinosaurs? Not quite …” (more)
[Noel Rock, 4 January]
“How would you feel if I wrote a post here explaining exactly where to find your book on the library shelves. Would you be outraged? Would you send me a bill? …” (more)
[Bock The Robber, 4 January]
“The display of links to newspaper articles online is ‘an infringement of copyright’ when it is done ‘for commercial purposes’, the National Newspapers of Ireland group has said …” (more)
[Laura Slattery, Irish Times, 4 January]
“Seán Kenny, the Dublin Bay North Labour TD and member of the Oireachtas Committee on Communications has stated it is absurd for the National Newspapers of Ireland organisation (NNI) to say that links to its member sites is a breach of copyright …” (more)
[The Labour Party, 4 January]
“So it’s Friday. On Sunday Simon McGarr wrote a fascinating piece in which he revealed that some of his professional clients were under pressure from Newspaper Licensing Ireland Ltd (NLI), a collection agent for the Newspaper publishers to pay for linking in to a number of newspaper articles about them …” (more)
[Mick Fealty, Slugger O'Toole, 4 January]
“Irish newspapers have started invoicing agencies that link to their content. If this unwelcome industry practise creeps into academe, it could stifle the delivery of high-quality content …” (more)
[Bernie Goldbach, Inside View from Ireland, 31 December]
