There's word that Major League Baseball has just signed a 20 million dollar deal deal with online broadcaster RealNetworks. That means if you want to hear a game on the net this season it won't be free the way it was last season. Fans will have to pay - but only 9 dollars and 95 cents for the entire season. Some freelance writers also want the free ride to end. They say it's not fair that publishers can put their work online or in other digital forms without paying again.
Publishers say they owe what they paid for.
The stakes in this dispute are rising as technology creates new and interesting ways to repackage what had once been just old newspaper fishwrap. And that's the top of our news for Wednesday. Rundown Congress Meets on Cloning A Congressional committee met today to discuss the possibility of banning the human cloning and research in the United States. As marketplace's John Dimsdale reports, the President has come out in favor of a ban. Requests to Clone With the debate on the table, futurist and commentator Jeremy Rifkin looks forward to a time when we might actually be buying generations of cloned people and what that portends for humanity in the broadest sense.