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    • Apple un-backdates stock options

      Posted by SoxFirst

      Apple chief Steve Jobs is digging himself out of the hole he has helped create by all those backdated options. First, a Disney probe has confirmed there was backdating but appears to clear Jobs of any wrong doing. Then Apple has announced its unbackdating options of employees and giving them cash to pay the tax bill.

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      YouTube to Offer BBC Videos

      Posted by Kathy from PC World

      It's a week of contrasts: BBC signs a deal with Google to distribute British TV to the world via the web. Contrast that with ABC/Disney/Academy Awards, which demanded that Oscar clips be removed from YouTube ... even though the Academy was not planning to re-use them (no DVD) nor was it showing them on its own website.

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    • Disney to cut jobs in spite of record box office sales

      Posted by Billbar from The Independent

      Despite the record-breaking success of its latest film, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the Walt Disney firm is to slash hundreds of jobs and drastically cut back on the number of films it makes. The drastic moves come as studios struggle with rising overheads, production budgets and marketing bills. Disney reportedly intends to return the studio to its roots in family films that not only have broad audience appeal but can sell merchandise and be exploited at theme parks

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    • Disney to Acquire Pixar for $7.4 Billion

      Posted by Billbar from Associated Press

      The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it is buying longtime partner Pixar Animation Studios Inc. for $7.4 billion in a deal that could restore Disney's clout in animation while vaulting Pixar CEO Steve Jobs into a powerful role at the media conglomerate.

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    Kathy comments on:

    YouTube to Offer BBC Videos

    Here’s my commentary on the Oscar bit plus a blurb on FAIR USE, a new bill in Congress.

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    10:14 pm 3/02/07
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