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Murdoch: Dependence On Free Content ‘Going To Have To Change’

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News Corp (NYSE: NWS). chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch gave his views on paidcontent and news aggregators to attendees at The Cable Show in Washington DC: “People are getting used to getting everything on the net for nothing. That’s going to have to change somehow.” One change would the relationship with Google and others: “Should we be allowing Google to steal all our copyrights? Not just Google (NSDQ: GOOG). I think if you’ve got a brand like the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) or the Wall Street Journal you don’t have to do that.” He said classifieds are “a gold river draining away that probably will be gone forever.” More detail at paidContent.org...

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Robert adds: In the UK, we are expecting future integration of WSJ.com with News International’s Times Online, possibly introducing a premium subscription for business news.

(Photo: World Economic Forum, some rights reserved)

Apr 3, 2009 3:02 AM ET

Posted In: Companies, News Corp., News International, rupert murdoch

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