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Apr 06 2009 4:49pm EDT

Late Breaks: AP Plays Copyright Police, more

-The Associated Press is leading the newspaper industry in a fight to beat back illegal use of news content on the internet. The initiative is focused on deterring news aggregators and bloggers whose re-posting of stories violates the "fair use" exemption to copyright law. [AP]

-Nicholas Lemann on Rupert Murdoch's legacy, maybe: "It's easy to imagine NewsCorp suffering the same fate that he visited upon the Bancrofts' Dow Jones -- a sale brought on by weak economic performance and family disharmony." [New Yorker]

-Playboy is de-sexifying its website in a bid to get more advertising. [Mediaweek]

-Bill O'Reilly has a lot of accomplishments he wants to tell you about, but he's proudest of all the money he raises for charity. [Wowowow]. □

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