A Plan to Ease Licensing Challenges for Online Music Services – Less...
Well, this (from Billboard.com, subscription might be required) is nice news. Government regulators, online service providers and performance rights organizations coming together to “pledge” to try and...
View ArticleIn Google Music Search Space Nobody Will Hear You Scream “No, I Meant ‘Iggy...
For many months, nay years me and my ilk have wondered, “What will Google’s play be in online music?” License content and sell it through Google Checkout? Buy a small upstart music service? Well, the...
View ArticleApple Buys Lala
Apple confirmed on 4 December 2009 that it was purchasing Lala, developer of an online streaming music service that lets consumers sign-in and stream music on-demand with the ability to pay $.10/song...
View ArticleIt’s 2010, Didn’t We Bury the Advertising-Supported-Song-Download-Model Last...
Right off the bat, I have to admit, I have not been invited to the Free All Music beta test. But it would appear this CNET blogger was invited. He states he found the experience of watching ads – of...
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 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 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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