This week Dan Kennedy at Media Nation castigated the late Jerome Salinger for being on the wrong side of the fair-use copyright battle over use of his work.

The iPad gets a false start: women are associating the name with feminine hygiene products and several companies already market devices called iPad reports The New York Times.

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A new study shows that newspapers, in addition to losing advertising revenue, have also lost over $2 billion in government subsidies. 

The Atlantic Wire has collected the musings of America’s most-read commentators on Obama’s first State of the Union.