Cablevision case puts kibosh on collection society claims

The Supreme Court’s denial of cert. in the Cablevision remote-DVR case has launched countless column inches of commentary and analysis already, much of it focused on the problems it poses for the Hollywood studios and TV networks worried about its impact on ad-skipping (see here, here and here). But the studios and networks aren’t the only losers Read More …

An uneasy alliance on TV Everywhere

I have a guest post up this weekend over at GigaOm where I discuss some of the potential technical and anti-trust problems with Time Warner  CEO Jeff Bewkes’ concept for TV Everywhere, particularly the amount of cooperation and information sharing among nominally competing service providers necessary to make the system work. But there are other Read More …

Nothing to ad

Got a business plan for a digital media application and looking for funding? Better take out that part about, “and they we sell ads against it” and come up with Plan B. According to a panel of venture capitalists at the Digital Media Conference in Washington, DC, Thursday, ad-supported is not a viable online business Read More …