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******* Rap mogul Damon Dash is one hands-on publisher, according to Smokey D. Fontaine, the editor of his glossy America. How hands-on? Fontaine claims one blow from the hip-hop heavy sent him to the hospital. In the latest allegation of violence against the Roc-a-Fella Records co-founder, Fontaine has told police that Dash punched him so hard in the chest that he fell over a chair and was injured. Fontaine told cops that the incident took place last Tuesday during an argument at Dash's Tribeca offices. MORE ONLINE 2. The Boston GlobeIt's a case of who owns the words By Alex Beam 10/4/05 http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2005/10/04/its_a_case_of_who_owns_the_words/ Just a few days ago, The New Yorker magazine released ''The Complete New Yorker," a $100, eight-DVD set that allows you to read, and print a copy of, every article that has ever appeared in the magazine. To get an idea of how the TCNY might work on your computer, a free demo is available at thenewyorkerstore.com. So I was wondering: What gives them the right to do this? It's not possible that famous New Yorker contributors like Rachel Carson, Robert Benchley, Charles Addams, or even the young John Updike signed over electronic rights to the Tilley gang. The answer, as our friend John Roberts might say, is not a matter of settled law. Edward Klaris, TCNY project director and also the magazine's general counsel, explains that The New Yorker can publish the DVDs because of a Second Circuit Court of Appeals decision in March involving National Geographic, which put out a digital version of the ''Complete National Geographic" in 1997. ''They were sued," Klaris says, ''and the Second Circuit held that an image-based compilation in context, like theirs, was protected" by the Copyright Act. ''As long as you maintain the integrity of your collected work, you can publish it in any medium. We have a copyright on that package." MORE ONLINE 3. WWD.comMemo Pad: Tabloids In Rehab? . . . Confidentially Speaking . . . Last Laugh By WWD.com staff 10/4/05 http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/101723?page=1 CONFIDENTIALLY SPEAKING: Time Inc. editor in chief Norman Pearlstine angered First Amendment purists when he ordered a reporter at Time to reveal the identity of a confidential source. Now he's writing a book about the ins and outs of confidential sources. The book, "Off The Record: The Use and Misuse of Anonymous Sources," will be published in 2007 by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. "The experience of the last few months just sort of set me thinking about the broader subject," Pearlstine said Monday. Facing a grand jury subpoena with backing from the Supreme Court, he instructed Matt Cooper to turn over his notes regarding the Valerie Plame leak to a federal prosecutor. "I wouldn't have called it the most difficult decision I ever had to make if I didn't believe that a number of journalists and others whom I respect would take violent exception to what I did," he said, insisting the book is no mere apologia. "I don't plan to duck the criticisms. Will I explain my decision? Yes. But I will fail the reader if I don't also explain why some of my closest friends in the business disagreed with it." -- Jeff Bercovici LAST LAUGH: The magazine industry loves a good joke -- just not at its own expense. Four days after Jon Stewart laid a comic smackdown on four top editors during an event hosted by the Magazine Publishers of America, many industry voices were still grumbling that MPA had shelled out a quarter of a million dollars ($150,000 for Stewart, another $100,000 for the event, according to a source) only to have "The Daily Show" host question the relevance of print in front of a roomful of advertisers.
And then there were the shots he took at the panelists: Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter, Cosmopolitan's Kate White, Time's Jim Kelly and Men's Health's David Zinczenko. "I think it's safe to say we probably all felt a little ambushed," said White afterward. "We were led to believe it was going to be not a roast or anything of that nature, but a dialogue. The biggest frustration was how poorly prepared he was. He didn't know where to go, and the only thing to do was get nasty or toss it to the audience." MORE ONLINE *Dude, Ed doesn't care. He will always, always, always love John Stewart like a fat kid love cake. Ed + John 4-EVA.* 4. Advertising AgeYou May Already Be a Winner in the Mile-High Circ Club! By Simon Dumenco 10/3/05 http://www.adage.com/news.cms?newsId=46252 The recent federal subpoena of Time Inc. in regard to its circulation practices reminds me of a song title by the Bloomington, Ind., band Murder By Death: "Until Morale Improves the Beatings Will Continue." Every few years the glossy world endures some sort of circulation scandal. Everybody acts upset and a little bit shocked, reporting and auditing standards are supposedly revised and tightened, and then everybody mostly goes back to doing what they normally do: finding ways to game their circ numbers. The latest agitation has to do with now-defunct InFlight Newspapers & Magazines, which bought mags in bulk and stuck them on airplanes and in other captive-audience spaces. But the government, judging from the subpoena, doesn't think such circ should be counted as "paid" -- part of the official rate base on which advertising rates are determined. Time Inc., of course, has already folded: In response to the subpoena, it told advertisers that it will now label such so-called sponsored circulation as "qualified." MORE ONLINE
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