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Fair use in the newsroom
At ONA, two lawyers demystified the law
By Sarah Laskow Oct 24, 2013 at 02:50 PM
"Can you fair use it?" That was the defining question of the Online News Association's copyright class last week. This... More
SCOTUS could change how you watch TV
But you wouldn’t know it; most publications gave this digital-age story analog-era treatment
By Sarah Laskow Oct 16, 2013 at 11:00 AM
There's nothing like Twitter to remind a reporter that, in the age of BuzzFeed, an exclusive does not necessarily command... More
Book ‘em
Piracy.lab is gathering data on digital book sharing
By Sarah Laskow Oct 2, 2013 at 11:00 AM
In anticipation of Congress' next big fight over copyright, legal academics are working to gather data and learn how copyright... More
Two stories, one press release
In MPAA vs. Hotfile, coverage based on one press release went in two very different directions
By Sarah Laskow Sep 25, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Here's a story of what happens when busy reporters have only one main source for a story--and that source is... More
Does copyright law work?
New and ongoing empirical research suggests: not always
By Sarah Laskow Sep 23, 2013 at 10:50 AM
As Congress starts thinking about renewing and, maybe, reforming copyright law, already there's a debate brewing. One on side of... More
The photo BuzzFeed wishes it hadn’t used
The viral site pissed off one Flickr user with a keen sense of vigilante Internet justice
By Sarah Laskow Sep 16, 2013 at 06:50 AM
Back in 2008, Dan Catt took a picture of his young son drinking from a juice box, the flaps ingeniously... More
Google released an anti-piracy report
And reporters are divided as to what it means
By Sarah Laskow Sep 12, 2013 at 02:50 PM
Google released an unusual report on Tuesday--"How Google Fights Piracy," a 25-page document that detailed its anti-piracy principles, the efforts... More
‘Find the best defense attorney you can’
Hackers being prosecuted under the CFAA don’t just need digital experts; they need good defense against a law vague enough to encompass most anything
By Sarah Laskow Aug 29, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Most criminal defendants, whether fighting a DUI or fighting Computer Fraud and Abuse Act charges, have a small legal team,... More
The lawyers hackers call
Meet the team defending Matthew Keys
By Sarah Laskow Aug 28, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Tor Ekeland works out of the smallest office I've ever seen, in the kind of Brooklyn coworking space where a... More
Obama’s ‘copyright czar’ showed independence
Vulnerable to criticism of pro-industry bias, she reached out directly to skeptical reporters
By Sarah Laskow Aug 15, 2013 at 06:55 AM
It's hard for a czar to get attention these days. If you listen to the conservative political media, at one... More
Google told German newspapers to opt in, and they did
A law meant to make aggregators pay for content has instead caused Google to threaten to remove papers from its news search
By Alison Langley Aug 8, 2013 at 02:50 PM
In July, a month before Germany's controversial copyright law requiring search engines to pay for featuring snippets of content was... More
Required skimming: privacy and intellectual property
Be in the know on one of the day’s biggest issues
By Sarah Laskow Aug 6, 2013 at 06:55 AM
This month, CJR presents "Required Skimming," a daily miniguide to our staffers' beats and obsessions. If we overlooked any of... More
What MIT really thought of Aaron Swartz
The school leadership’s patience for hacker culture only went so far
By Sarah Laskow Jul 31, 2013 at 06:50 AM
On Tuesday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released a report, produced by an internal "Review Panel," on the school's actions... More
WaPo makes a Switch
The paper’s newest blog will cover tech policy, the Wonkblog way
By Sarah Laskow Jul 25, 2013 at 11:00 AM
The Washington Post announced on Monday the launch of a new tech policy blog, The Switch, that will cover "NSA... More
Creating Internet accountability
Author Rebecca MacKinnon’s new project aims to rank Internet giants on human rights
By Sarah Laskow Jul 23, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Rebecca MacKinnon is the sort of person who, after Edward Snowden leaked details of the government's digital surveillance program, could... More
On the NSA, the media may tilt right - An inquiry finds a pro-surveillance bias in the language
The AP was right to fire Bob Lewis - He needed to wait for a response from his piece’s target, and he didn’t
The failure to factcheck ‘You can keep it’ - How the media missed on coverage of Obama’s implausible healthcare promises
In Colorado, a small paper looks forward - The Coloradoan’s new, young editor has been trying to reinvent the publication for the digital age—and it’s working
Chris Hondros: How he got that picture - From CJR’s Covering Iraq oral history
Email blasts from CJR writers and editors
‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ comes to New York
“A great portrait is proof against pathos”
For the first time, traffic for Gawker sites exceeded the NYT
44 million to 41million
Waiting for the next great technology critic
Who will come after Mossberg and Pogue?
New York Times offers a glimpse at the homepage of the future
A new nytimes.com is in the works, and the company is previewing a prototype homepage, section front, and new article page
The story of Greg Packer, an average joe with an uncanny skill at making media appearances
CJR's Guide to Online News Startups
ACEsTooHigh.com – Reporting on the science, education, and policy surrounding childhood trauma
Who Owns What
The Business of Digital Journalism
A report from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Questions and exercises for journalism students.
