Tumblr: David Karp's $800 Million Art Project - Forbes: "Tumblr is growing up and, as anyone with a baby or a mortgage can tell you, that means expensive complications. “I really like David, but he’s got a brutal year ahead,” says Gawker Media owner Nick Denton. “The pressure on Internet media companies to deliver revenues is going way, way up.” Karp, who once showed disdain for advertising, finally allowed ads on Tumblr last May. The company finished 2012 with $13 million in revenue; the hope in this “leap” year is that it’ll get to $100 million."
Tumblr's David Karp: Why I Love New York - Forbes: "As far as our ability to build an audience, New York is truly the most creative city in the world; that is so much of what Tumblr is: a media network, a home for tens of millions of creators."
Chinese Court Hits Apple in Copyright Dispute - WSJ.com: "A Beijing court ordered Apple Inc. to pay 1.03 million yuan, or about $165,000, to a group of local writers who said the U.S. gadget maker sold unlicensed copies of their books online, according to state media. The state-run Xinhua news agency said Thursday that the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People's Court ordered Apple to pay the money to eight Chinese writers and two companies for violating their copyrights. Attorneys for the writers had argued that software available from Apple's app store contained unlicensed digital copies of their books. The group originally asked for 10 million yuan in damages, according to Xinhua."
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Google settles Belgian papers' copyright dispute
Old media, paywalls, copyright, and Google--
Google settles Belgian papers' copyright dispute | Reuters: "Google agreed . . . to help boost online revenues for a group of Belgian newspaper publishers and authors, settling a six-year dispute over copyright which it hopes will be a model for resolving similar clashes around the world. Publishers have been trying to get Google to pay them for showing their online content in Web searches as more and more readers of the printed word defect to online media. Under the Belgian deal Google said it will now collaborate with the Rossel Group, which owns leading dailies Le Soir and L'Echo, the IPM Group, which publishes La Libre Belgique, L'Avenir and with the authors to help them generate revenues from their online content. "We have reached an agreement that ends all litigation. From now on Google and Belgian French-language publishers will partner on a broad range of business initiatives," Google said in a statement. These include working with the publishers to ensure that readers pay for the news via paywalls and subscriptions and distributing content on smartphones and tablets. Google itself will not pay for the content on its services. . . . They will also be able to pull out of Google's web search and Google News whenever they want. The case started in 2006 when the media firms took Google to a Belgian court, saying the search engine had infringed their copyright. Google is also embroiled in similar disputes in other EU countries. . . . Google says its services drive traffic to publishers while its AdSense programme, which allows companies to place banner advertisements on a website, pays $7 billion yearly to web publishers worldwide. . . ."
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Google settles Belgian papers' copyright dispute | Reuters: "Google agreed . . . to help boost online revenues for a group of Belgian newspaper publishers and authors, settling a six-year dispute over copyright which it hopes will be a model for resolving similar clashes around the world. Publishers have been trying to get Google to pay them for showing their online content in Web searches as more and more readers of the printed word defect to online media. Under the Belgian deal Google said it will now collaborate with the Rossel Group, which owns leading dailies Le Soir and L'Echo, the IPM Group, which publishes La Libre Belgique, L'Avenir and with the authors to help them generate revenues from their online content. "We have reached an agreement that ends all litigation. From now on Google and Belgian French-language publishers will partner on a broad range of business initiatives," Google said in a statement. These include working with the publishers to ensure that readers pay for the news via paywalls and subscriptions and distributing content on smartphones and tablets. Google itself will not pay for the content on its services. . . . They will also be able to pull out of Google's web search and Google News whenever they want. The case started in 2006 when the media firms took Google to a Belgian court, saying the search engine had infringed their copyright. Google is also embroiled in similar disputes in other EU countries. . . . Google says its services drive traffic to publishers while its AdSense programme, which allows companies to place banner advertisements on a website, pays $7 billion yearly to web publishers worldwide. . . ."
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