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Kellner's Interviewer Speaks Out
Posted by Ernest Miller on Friday, May 31 @ 08:25:42 EDT Copyright
Staci D. Kramer is a contributing editor of the USC Annenberg School for Communication's Online Journalism Review [Recommended - ed.] and is the journalist who conducted the interview with Jamie Kellner in which the head of Turner Broadcasting said skipping commercials was theft. See, LawMeme's (Top Ten New Copyright Crimes). She has now written an article about how the interview took off via the Internet (From Acorns to Mighty Oaks). The article is an interesting reaction by a mainstream journalist to how the Internet can grab something from the mainstream and masticate the heck out of it. Full disclosure, she calls LawMeme's post "particularly clever", but feels we copied too much of her article. [via MetaFilter]

Unfortunately, there is little in the article that would indicate any criticism of the substance of Kellner's beliefs about copyright. Indeed, Kramer defends Kellner against a Michael Zuzel column in the Vancouver, Wa. Columbian in which Kellner is called a "sputtering doofus" [sounds about right to me - ed.] (Naw, You Don't Have to Watch Ads). Kramer implies that Zuzel does not know the difference between a written or implied contract, but after reading Zuzel's column that seems a tad unfair. She also refers to a Dan Gillmor column as "dismissive" (Paranoia, stupidity and greed ganging up on the public). However, it seems that Gillmor is hardly being dismissive when he, in Kramer's words, "put Kellner’s notions in context with several other incidents involving access to content."

 
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Re: Kellner's Interviewer Speaks Out (Score: 2)
by RGSharpe on Friday, May 31 @ 12:34:14 EDT
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It looks like Kramer was just interested in showing how quickly the Internet community can access, assess, and tear apart any bit of information, making an example of her article. The only real defense of the "sputtering doofus" is just the one or two lines referring to Zuzel's column (although at least Zuzel bashed Kellner outright - she took 14 words more to do the same to Zuzel). She seems to be implying that journalists should be careful to write what needs to be written, and to understand that if they touch on a subject even a fraction of Internet users care about, they're going to get a rash of publicity about it.

She also seems to have experienced first hand and understood that no matter how well-written and well-researched an article is, it's going to end up getting torn apart and parts of it used as fodder for someone else's agenda. Deal with it and move on. Don't try to stop the phenomenon.
To her credit, I'm with her as she complains about people using just parts (therefore removing all-important context) of her article and not the whole thing, but since the article is no longer at the same level of availability, that's no longer a valid complaint.

All in all, it's too bad her name was propagated improperly - she deserves credit for the original article. She's also right about the lack of context, but as soon as the article moved into the moderated-access arena, all bets were off. If I were paid a dollar for every article that scared me or pissed me off, I'd be a wealthy man (and if I had to pay the buck each time, I wouldn't be able to afford my apartment, let alone my computer, power, phone, and Internet service bills).


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Re: Kellner's Interviewer Speaks Out (Score: 1)
by tompoe on Friday, May 31 @ 17:40:52 EDT
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Hello: You mentioned that there was feedback to the effect that LawMeme, in Staci's opinion, copied too much of her article. This is interesting. The article, posted on the Internet, places a burden on others to be careful when quoting the article, in order to not go too far. Did she mention what might have been appropriate? Perhaps a general reference, and a link to the pay-per-view page?
Thanks, Tom Poe, Reno, NV, http://www.studioforrecording.org/ http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/ http://renotahoe.pm.org/


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