General Article Websites and iPads - which way now for newspapers?

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By James Cridland


An introduction to newspapers in the UK
Rupert Murdoch, the owner of (among others) The Sun and The Times, was clear in April 2010 on his thoughts about the future. ‘We are going to stop people like Google or Microsoft or whoever from taking stories for nothing … there is a law of copyright and they recognise it,’ he told an event in the US.
In June 2010, The Times and The Sunday Times became paid-for websites, behind a so-called ‘paywall’. Murdoch’s ‘Wall Street Journal’ had...

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