“Travel Channel’s “Man Vs. Food” host Adam Richmand recently made a swing through Jackson to shoot footage for the show at Burgers and Blues, Chimneyville, 2 Sisters and the Coffee Roastery. The program will televise nationwide in early summer, says Ben |Allen, president of Downtown Jackson Partners, a downtown revitalization and promotions agency. Also, Travel [...]
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Business Digest: Media Civil War
January 20, 2012
The new media, led by Wikipedia, Google and reddit, are protesting the proposed anti-piracy legislation, SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act), that the music and film industries are seeking. Wikipedia and reddit took off, while Google’s masthead showed the logo completely covered with an image of black tape. Media coverage [...]
Congress Buries Anti-Piracy Legislation
January 20, 2012
TheHill.com technology blogger Brendan Sasso is reporting that Congress has given up on current anti-piracy legislation. House and Senate leaders decided Friday to squash votes on the Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The legislation which was “designed to go after foreign websites that offer illegal copies of movies, music [...]
January 20, 2012
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