Who Owns the News? A History of Copyright

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By Will Slauter *07

Published Feb. 7, 2019

Who Owns the News? (Stanford University Press) explores the delicate connection between news organizations, facts, and copyright. It examines how news publishers in Britain and the U.S. have historically and currently sought to control the rights to their news coverage while dealing with the truth that no one person or organization can own the facts to a story.

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