Soundtrckr Tries to Marry Location, Music: Marriage Made in Heaven or Shotgun...
Just when you thought there weren’t any more ways one could use “social” as a modifier for music, along comes Soundtrckr (www.soundtrckr.com). What Soundtrackr has done is marry streaming music, shared...
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Walmart’s the latest entrant in the over-the-top sweepstakes and it could be one of those deals that will be viewed in the future as an important example of my colleague Andrew Frank’s...
View ArticleSign of Things to Come for Hulu?
Interesting news here that Comedy Central (a Viacom property), home of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report,” is going to pull those two shows from the Hulu line-up, as of March 9....
View ArticleRhapsody: Moving Out and Moving On . . .
Rhapsody, one of the very earliest of legitimate online music services and, as a result, one of the first to be hammered by the juggernaut that became iTunes, has finished the spin-off process from...
View ArticleFCC Considers Opening the Door to “Hi-Def rental” for Movies at Home – but at...
Want to pay to rent a movie that’s still in the theaters – or just left the theaters and is wending its way through various distribution windows before it gets to the DVD rental or online VOD services...
View ArticleLimewire Gets Squeezed by Appeals Court
Inducement, thy name is Limewire. So now – almost five years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2005 (in the MGM vs. Grokster case) that purveyors of file-trading software could be held liable...
View ArticleSteps to Towards Taming the Complexities of Content Licensing Content in a...
One of the serious challenges facing media companies and new online (and I include mobile in “online”) distribution intermediaries is knowing what content is available to license out (media and content...
View ArticleGoogle 1, Viacom 0 (Now, we head into overtime)
I’m over in Europe running about visiting clients at the moment, so it was interesting to be in a different part of the world when the news that a judge effectively gutted Viacom’s $1billion copyright...
View ArticleHulu Plus: You Can Pay?
So now we’ll get an answer to the $9.99 question: will making TV shows available on consumer PCs and portable devices be enough to get those consumers to pay directly for TV shows? Shows they’re...
View ArticleGoogle’s Move to Copyright Cop Had to Happen
It’s quite interesting to note how one blog post can both illuminate and obfuscate hugely complex issues. An example? Here’s one right here. Google’s chief legal counsel, Kent Walker, pledges that...
View ArticleSoundtrckr Tries to Marry Location, Music: Marriage Made in Heaven or Shotgun...
Just when you thought there weren’t any more ways one could use “social” as a modifier for music, along comes Soundtrckr (www.soundtrckr.com). What Soundtrackr has done is marry streaming music, shared...
View ArticleToday’s Save-Money-Live-Better Deal? Over-the-Top Content
Walmart’s the latest entrant in the over-the-top sweepstakes and it could be one of those deals that will be viewed in the future as an important example of my colleague Andrew Frank’s...
View ArticleSign of Things to Come for Hulu?
Interesting news here that Comedy Central (a Viacom property), home of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report,” is going to pull those two shows from the Hulu line-up, as of March 9....
View ArticleRhapsody: Moving Out and Moving On . . .
Rhapsody, one of the very earliest of legitimate online music services and, as a result, one of the first to be hammered by the juggernaut that became iTunes, has finished the spin-off process from...
View ArticleFCC Considers Opening the Door to “Hi-Def rental” for Movies at Home – but at...
Want to pay to rent a movie that’s still in the theaters – or just left the theaters and is wending its way through various distribution windows before it gets to the DVD rental or online VOD services...
View ArticleLimewire Gets Squeezed by Appeals Court
Inducement, thy name is Limewire. So now – almost five years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2005 (in the MGM vs. Grokster case) that purveyors of file-trading software could be held liable...
View ArticleSteps to Towards Taming the Complexities of Content Licensing Content in a...
One of the serious challenges facing media companies and new online (and I include mobile in “online”) distribution intermediaries is knowing what content is available to license out (media and content...
View ArticleGoogle 1, Viacom 0 (Now, we head into overtime)
I’m over in Europe running about visiting clients at the moment, so it was interesting to be in a different part of the world when the news that a judge effectively gutted Viacom’s $1billion copyright...
View ArticleHulu Plus: You Can Pay?
So now we’ll get an answer to the $9.99 question: will making TV shows available on consumer PCs and portable devices be enough to get those consumers to pay directly for TV shows? Shows they’re...
View ArticleGoogle’s Move to Copyright Cop Had to Happen
It’s quite interesting to note how one blog post can both illuminate and obfuscate hugely complex issues. An example? Here’s one right here. Google’s chief legal counsel, Kent Walker, pledges that...
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