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Eric Pfanner

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Third-Party Descriptions

May 2006: Journalist.

Relationships

Role	Name	Type	Last Updated
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present)	New York Times	Source	Mar 20, 2011

Articles and Resources

Date	Fairness.com Resource	Read it at:
Mar 20, 2011	In Britain, Curbing Lawsuits Over Libel QUOTE: “The government’s draft defamation bill is a big step forward toward ending the practice of libel tourism, which has led our courts to silence free speech around the world,” said John Kampfner, chief executive of Index on Censorship. “But without action to reduce the cost of a libel trial, reform will protect the free speech of some, but costs will silence others.”	New York Times
Oct 28, 2009	Germany Looks at Ways to Protect Online Journalism QUOTE: The new governing coalition [in Germany], led by Ms. Merkel’s Christian Democrats and including the Free Democratic Party, has pledged to create a new kind of copyright to protect online journalism.	New York Times
Aug 27, 2009	Italian Regulators Investigating Google QUOTE: Italian competition authorities said Thursday that they were investigating Google, following complaints from publishers that the company was abusing its dominant position on the Internet to deny them a fair share of online advertising revenue.	New York Times
Jul 12, 2009	The Paradox of Privacy (Media Cache) QUOTE: While attitudes toward privacy can appear paradoxical, the seeming contradiction is really about something else: control	New York Times
Jul 09, 2009	European Publishers Call on E.U. to Protect Copyright QUOTE: Leading European newspaper and magazine publishers on Thursday called on the European Commission to strengthen copyright protection... The publishers said widespread use of their work by online news aggregators and other Web sites was undermining their efforts to develop an online business models...	New York Times
Jun 14, 2009	Media Cache: Politicians Fail to Grasp Peer-To-Peer QUOTE: The proposal was shot down last week by the country’s highest judicial review body, the Constitutional Council, which ruled that it violated constitutional guarantees of free speech and the presumption of innocence.	New York Times
May 31, 2009	Media Cache: The Scoop That Changed Parliament, and News QUOTE: “When papers pay for documentary information it is very different to paying for an interview, where money can encourage overstatement and even falsehood,” wrote Roy Greenslade, a media commentator...”	New York Times
May 24, 2009	A Fight to Protect Americans From British Libel Law QUOTE: Some free-speech advocates in the United States say that so-called libel tourists are using the global-distribution argument to justify suing for libel there....Similar bills are advancing in other state legislatures, and stronger measures, allowing American defendants to fight back against adverse foreign libel rulings.	New York Times
Apr 15, 2008	Advertising: On the Edge of Impropriety, Ryanair Builds Its Image QUOTE: Last week, a Ryanair ad promoting low air fares drew fire from the British Advertising Standards Authority, which monitors ads for taste and accuracy. The agency said that Ryanair had been misleading consumers about the availability of the low fares, and complained of the company’s “unwillingness and apparent inability” to comply with British advertising codes.	New York Times
Feb 01, 2008	Sweden Accuses 4 of Copyright Offenses QUOTE: ...authorities say that [the Pirate Bay Web site] helps others violate copyright laws by linking providers of pirated songs and films with people searching for the material. The site has become the focus of the entertainment industry’s fight against the unauthorized digital copying of films, games and music.	New York Times
Dec 03, 2007	Ad for New Train Service Strains European Taste QUOTE: That created the odd spectacle of Fleet Street newspapers — never shy about resorting to national stereotypes when, say, the England soccer team plays a European rival — crying foul.	New York Times
Nov 12, 2007	European Tabloids Still Agog Months After Child Vanishes QUOTE: The coverage has increased circulation at newspapers and kept a staff of public relations professionals, working on behalf of the McCanns, busy denying the latest leaks against them. British papers have benefited from a seemingly endless appetite for articles about the McCanns, fueling online and dinner-party debates about everything from the reliability of DNA evidence to the differences between British and Portuguese child care practices.	New York Times
Jun 05, 2007	Advertising: Star Power Backfires, Costing Agency a Client QUOTE: The trouble began when an employee — disobeying instructions, Saatchi & Saatchi insisted — submitted the images to www.AdCritic.com, an American ad industry Web site. In the United States, the estates of dead celebrities are allowed to control the use of their images; in Britain, however, lawyers say no approval is needed.	New York Times
Mar 01, 2007	Europeans Threaten More Fines for Microsoft QUOTE: LONDON, March 1 — The European Commission on Thursday threatened Microsoft with millions of euros in new fines in a long-running antitrust dispute, saying the company was demanding unreasonable royalties from rivals seeking to link their software to the Windows operating system.	New York Times
Aug 29, 2006	Universal Backs Free Music Rival to iTunes QUOTE: reflects the music industry’s eagerness to experiment with various digital business models and to find a way to overcome piracy and illegal copying...record executives have begun to chafe at Apple’s dominance in the online market, particularly its insistence on a one-size-fits-all pricing model, saying it has restricted the growth of digital sales.	New York Times
Apr 17, 2006	'Gotcha' Master Tastes His Own Medicine QUOTE: Mazher Mahmood, a reporter whose modus operandi is to dress up as a wealthy Arab businessman and secretly record conversations with his unwitting victims, recently met his match in George Galloway...questions about the lengths to which Fleet Street will go to expose public figures' drug habits, corruption and sexual peccadilloes.	New York Times

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