Media +Technology Intelligence
The studios and the DVD Copy Control Assn. (DVD-CCA) are on a legal roll. On successive days last week they won a preliminary injunction against RealDVD and a reversal on appeal in the Kaleidescape case (The Media Wonk has been on another assignment so I’m only just getting aroundto blogging this now). The two courts found, Read More …
For those with a deterministic view of digital technology’s impact on information economies, Brad Stone’s piece in the NYTimes this morning is a good read. Stone reports on the efforts of Polyphonic Music, the new venture formed by Radiohead manager Brian Message to invest directly in the careers of budding musicians. Polyphonic typically invests a Read More …
A couple of data points I would have liked to have seen but could not find in the study released Monday by the International Intellectual Property Alliance on the copyright industries’ $1.5 trillion contribution to U.S. GDP: 1) What portion of the economic activity in what the report classify as “non-core” copyright industries is being counted toward that Read More …
By now, even Amazon would acknowledge mishandling the remote deletion of George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from hundreds of unsuspecting Kindles last week in response to a dispute over the rights to the works in the U.S. Apart from the near criminal lack of irony required to send 1984 — of all books — Read More …
In thinking some more about Judge Richard Posner’s controversial suggestion the other day that Congress might need to expand copyright law to prohibit linking and paraphrasing news stories without permission in order to “save” newspapers from the ravages of bloggers and aggregators, I was reminded of a talk given last month at the World Copyright Summit by Read More …