Media +Technology Intelligence
For all the disruptive innovation Apple has unleashed on the markets for devices and software it has not been particularly disruptive to the content markets it has entered. Often just the opposite. By the time Apple introduced the iTunes Music Store the record business was already reeling from the impact of Napster and its progeny. Read More …
YouTube is not confirming but not exactly denying a report by the Daily Dot on Wednesday claiming the video site is getting ready to relaunch its live-streaming platform in with a new emphasis on games and e-sports. An announcement could come as soon as June, during the E3 game expo in Los Angeles, the report said. Read More …
In addition to their many other accomplishments, it’s hard to overstate the impact that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have had on the evolution of the TV business over the past decade. As Stewart now follows Colbert from his late-night, Comedy Central post they leave a transformed industry in their wakes. Stewart and Colbert didn’t Read More …
The Media Wonk will be hosting the first Digital Breakfast DC conference on Oct. 1 in, not surprisingly, Washington, DC. The topic for the panel is Using Tech to Safeguard Content and IP. Panelists include Rick Cotton, general counsel of NBC Universal, Prof. Peter Jaszi of Washington College of Law at American University, Jon Baumgarten, partner with 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 …