Pressing News from the Media Nation
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
• F**k copyrights!: With a very public $1.65 billion on the table for Google's purchase of D.I.Y. video site YouTube, litigious lawyers will eye copyright infringement suits, says the WSJ. They can take away Colbert and SNL clips, but they can't touch The Kid from Brooklyn (right, NSFW).
• Revenge of the nerds: The New York Observer checked in with The New Yorker Fest's literary luminaries (Zadie Smith, Tobias Wolff, George Saunders), and then swung by the magazine's "night of minimal techno and house music."
- Tragic One Direction Singer Liam Payne Dead Aged 31 After 130Ft Balcony Plunge: Celeb Tributes Pour In as Images Emerge of Smashed Up Hotel Room Strewn With White Powder and 'Drugs Foil'
- Family of Menendez Brothers Beg for Convicted Killers' Freedom in Press Conference Three Decades After Brutal Murders: 'They Were Failed By Their Parents!'
- BREAKING: Jailed 'Sex Beast' Sean 'Diddy' Combs Hit With Another Wave of Horrific Lawsuits — Rapper Accused of Drugging, Raping, Sodomizing and Threatening to Murder Multiple New Victims
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• Factory's open: Rush & Molloy confirm that photographer Todd Eberle assembled Andy Warhol's old posse for a Vanity Fair photo shoot. (Rumors of the shoot previously appeared on Jossip, a gossip blog.)
• Putin on the spot: Vladimir Putin can't shake criticism over the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was killed last weekend. Related: In Memory of Anna Politkovskaya.