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2 December 2007Newspaper executives expected to take guarded tone during presentations at next week’s UBS Global Media and Communications Conference, according to Goldman Sachs analysts. (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003679698 11/30) Newsprint: While U.S. newsprint consumption fell again in October, the decline in newsprint prices appeared to have stopped this month and could be improving, industry analysts said following the release of the Pulp and Paper Products Council’s October newsprint statistics. (http://www.editorandpublisher.com 11/29)
A federal appeals court threw out a hard-fought agreement between newspaper publishers and freelance writers to pay the writers for electronic reproduction of their work. The An appellate panel ruled that the courts had no jurisdiction over the copyright dispute and that a lower court erred in accepting the writers’ lawsuit and approving the settlement. People on both sides of the dispute said it was unclear what would happen next–whether the decision would be appealed, a new suit filed, or a new agreement negotiated. The suit named major publishers and archive services, including the New York Times Company, Tribune Co., Dow Jones & Company, the LexisNexis unit of the Reed Elsevier Group and Thomson Corp. (NYT 11/30 C4)
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