Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

US government agency hopes to assign copyright to events

Well – sort of, if this “staff discussion draft” of “Potential Policy Recommendations to Support the Reinvention of Journalism” from the US Federal Trade Commission is anything to go by. Among the bullet points: “Hot news” Protection of Facts ie: if you report on something first, you have copyright over the event! That’s just fantastic, and […]