If You Can’t Fight ‘Em, Join ‘Em: The New York Times Shuts Down Times Select

by Richard Farrell on September 21, 2007

in Changing times, The return of the commons

The Times has killed the subscription based Times Select. It’s columnists and the last 20 years of its archives are now free. Given the Times’s cultural position, this is a mildly historical marker for both Internet journalism and the Creative Commons intellectual property movements.

For the Times’s announcement, click here.

For Dan Gilmor’s commentary on this move, click here.

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