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A Profitable Public Sphere: The Creation Of The New York Times Op-Ed Page, Michael J. Socolow
A Profitable Public Sphere: The Creation Of The New York Times Op-Ed Page, Michael J. Socolow
Communication and Journalism Faculty Scholarship
This stud y utilizes archival and other primary materials to describe the development of the New York Times op-ed page. This innovative forum for commentary, which premiered in September 1970, is examined through the lenses of Jiirgen Habermas' public sphere theory and eco nomic concerns in the American newspaper industry. The page provid ed a significant source of revenue and diversified social, cultural, and political news analysis. Times executives sought to serve the public interest while considering corporate profits.
The Google Book Settlement And The Fair Use Counterfactual, Matthew Sag
The Google Book Settlement And The Fair Use Counterfactual, Matthew Sag
Faculty Articles
The sprawling Google Book Search litigation began as a dispute between the search engine colossus and a variety of authors and publishers over the legality of Google’s book digitization effort, the Google Book Search project (“GBS” or “Google Book Search”), for the purpose of indexing paper collections and making them searchable on the Internet. However, through the metamorphic power of class action litigation, a dispute over mere indexing and searching has been transformed into a comprehensive agreement over the future of the book as a digital commodity. Understanding this transformation and its implications is the central ambition of this article. …