A topic that has produced passionate and some polarized opinion in the PR community in the UK in recent months is that of paying for a license if you use copyrighted digital content for commercial gain. From next January, anyone copying and supplying UK newspaper web content to others for a fee – monitoring or press clippings agencies to PR agencies, for instance, and from those PR agencies to their clients – must acquire a license in the UK. The…

Content summary: Neville’s at Twestival in Reading so Thornley Fallis’ Joseph Thornley steps in as guest co-host. An interview with Knight Foundation’s Gary Kebbel is up. Mitch Joel’s book, Six Pixels of Separation, is out. Dan York reports on the new Facebook app for the iPhone and his Disruptive Conversations post about attention waves. The Media Monitoring Minute looks at a four-month Monopoly game using Google Maps. Joseph and Shel talk about Canadian PR and the content gap created by…