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Go To Our Website For More (Of The Same): Reassessing Federal Policy Towards Newspapers Mergers And Cross Media Ownership And The Harm To Localism, Diversity And The Public Interest, Jason Zenor

Jason Zenor

Newspapers are workhorse of local news industry and this information is important in order to have an informed citizenry. But, the conventional wisdom is that newspapers are an endangered species and that something drastic needs to be done if this form of media is going to survive. Many proactive solutions have been forwarded such as charging for online content, using tablet and smartphone technology to publish newspapers and making newspapers more assessable to younger and more diverse generations. Another more conceding solution is to allow for greater relaxation on newspapers mergers and cross media ownership rules. But, this solution would …

The Prospects For Protecting News Content Under The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Priya Barnes

Priya Barnes

The DMCA was enacted to provide adequate legal safeguards against piracy so that content producers, such as music, software, movie and other media producers, would be incentivized to embrace the digital medium. The antitrafficking provision, in particular, imposes civil and criminal sanctions on technology manufacturers who offer the means to circumvent content producers’ digital access controls.

Since its enactment, the DMCA’s antitrafficking provisions have been invoked against hackers of digital music, movies and software. This article weighs the prospects for applying the antitrafficking provisions against news aggregators who access password protected digital news content for redistribution. It concludes that while …