30 março 2005

VITAMEDIAS

Dow Jones Executive Foresees More Paid Web Sites: More U.S. publishers likely will try to wean readers off free Internet versions of their newspapers by starting to charge online subscription fees [...]
Paid Internet sites can help publishers bring in new subscription revenue from readers who want access to the online content, but free sites are attractive to advertisers because they attract many more readers.
Internet advertising is growing much faster than traditional print advertising, although it still represents only a small amount of overall ad revenue.
[E, já agora, para ter em atenção: Freelance Writers, NY Times Settle for $18 Million: Freelance writers have reached a settlement worth as much as $18 million with The New York Times Co. and other defendants in a copyright infringement case involving work posted online or in databases [...]
publishers including The New York Times, Time Warner Inc.'s Time Inc. unit and Dow Jones & Co Inc.'s Wall Street Journal have agreed to pay writers up to $1,500 for stories in which the writers had registered the copyrights.
Writers who failed to register their copyrights will receive up to $60 per article]