Universal deal with YouTube frees up music videos (just as newspapers threaten to charge for articles)
The Associated Press and a range of newspaper leaders trashed online news aggregators large and small earlier this week, calling them parasites and other foul terms and demanding that everyone start paying for doing things like republishing excerpts of news articles (or even paying for any access whatsoever). Those who make a living off the internet responded in kind, even resorting to comparing newspapers and their demands to record labels and their practice of suing… Continue Reading