Dr Kwanghui Lim speaks at a public seminar in Melbourne organized by IPRIA in association with the Centre for Media and Communications Law (CMCL) and the Melbourne Business School (MBS). Dr Lim is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Business School and Associate Director of IPRIA.

Discussion slides in PDF format: works.bepress.com/kwanghui/18

Background: News Corporation is about to start charging for online access to its news. It says the future of old media in the digital age is that consumers will pay for online news content in a similar way as for hard copy ‘newspapers' – and it seems to be far from alone in its plans. But is this a sound approach in legal and business terms?

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