AP CEO Tom Curley and famed News Corp head honcho Rupert Murdoch told media today that news content creators were being exploited by third parties “such as Wikipedia (), YouTube (
), and Facebook (
via mashable.com
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Rupert Murdoch: “The aggregators and plagiarists will soon have to pay a price for the co-opting of our content. But if we do not take advantage of the current movement toward paid content, it will be the content creators, the people in this hall, who will pay the ultimate price and the content kleptomaniacs who triumph.”
Dream on buddy. The loser will be the huge multinational corporations that have been taking advantage of controling the news for years.
The journalists in that hall have an unprecidented level of access to information, community and audience. They don't need you anymore.
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