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178266
Wed, 04/27/2011 - 11:55
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GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE WITH COMPETITION LAWS NEEDED FOR EXPLOSION OF DIGITAL ERA
KUALA LUMPUR, April 27 (Bernama) -- There is a need for a governance
structure that complies with applicable antitrust and competition laws in line
with the explosion of the digital era, said Malaysian National News Agency
(Bernama) General Manager Hasnul Hassan Wednesday.
He said the marketplace should differentiate between people who devoted
themselves, at great human and economic cost, to gathering news of public
interest, and those who made profit from it without supporting it.
"There is a price for content, yet many people insist that all content
should be free all the time although many readers recognise the reality that
they should pay a price for news and information," he said in his keynote paper
on the third day of the International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA) International Newspaper Conference 2011, here.
He pointed out that the aggregators, plagiarists and pirates would soon have
to pay a price for the content.
"Otherwise it will be the content creators who will pay the ultimate price
and the content raiders will triumph, and in the end everybody will lose," he
said.
He believed that everyone could benefit if such initiatives as preservation
and digitalization of news and information were vigorously explored.
Hasnul also said the digital era was a mechanism by which people could
transform their lives to improve the education of their children, and to access
news and information on an unprecedented scale.
"With different approaches and ideologies, it would be surprising to reach a
compromise, but we can have common grounds on many issues," he added.
The three-day conference, which started on April 25, was themed "Newspaper
in Multiple Scripts and Multiple Languages: Issues and Challenges for National
Heritage" and attended by about 200 participants consisting of librarians,
information managers and media practitioners, including from the United States,
United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Finland and India.
structure that complies with applicable antitrust and competition laws in line
with the explosion of the digital era, said Malaysian National News Agency
(Bernama) General Manager Hasnul Hassan Wednesday.
He said the marketplace should differentiate between people who devoted
themselves, at great human and economic cost, to gathering news of public
interest, and those who made profit from it without supporting it.
"There is a price for content, yet many people insist that all content
should be free all the time although many readers recognise the reality that
they should pay a price for news and information," he said in his keynote paper
on the third day of the International Federation of Library Associations and
Institutions (IFLA) International Newspaper Conference 2011, here.
He pointed out that the aggregators, plagiarists and pirates would soon have
to pay a price for the content.
"Otherwise it will be the content creators who will pay the ultimate price
and the content raiders will triumph, and in the end everybody will lose," he
said.
He believed that everyone could benefit if such initiatives as preservation
and digitalization of news and information were vigorously explored.
Hasnul also said the digital era was a mechanism by which people could
transform their lives to improve the education of their children, and to access
news and information on an unprecedented scale.
"With different approaches and ideologies, it would be surprising to reach a
compromise, but we can have common grounds on many issues," he added.
The three-day conference, which started on April 25, was themed "Newspaper
in Multiple Scripts and Multiple Languages: Issues and Challenges for National
Heritage" and attended by about 200 participants consisting of librarians,
information managers and media practitioners, including from the United States,
United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Finland and India.
