TV Finds That a Mortal Foe, the DVR, Is Really a Best Friend – NYTimes.com
Much as the VCR never killed the movie industry, some in the industry are finding that Digital Video Recorders (DVRs, like Tivo) are helping ad revenue.
Category: Copyright
Profiting from Piracy
Google seeks to turn YouTube rights clash into profit | Business | guardian.co.uk
When it first came out Google’s fingerprinting technology was billed as a means to flag YouTube videos as violating copyright. Now, they’re hoping to turn it into a means for the “pirates” to make ad revenue for the content producers. This is an important step in possibly legitimizing online sharing.
Copyright treaty still classified
Special Interests See ‘Classified’ Copyright Treaty; You Can’t | Threat Level | Wired.com
Want to know the language of the ever-transforming proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? It’s classified.
The fact that this treaty continues to be discussed in secret is beyond explanation. Has anyone started a petition against this?
Innovation stories and copyright
100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words – Ars Technica
It’s almost a truism in the tech world that copyright owners reflexively oppose new inventions that do (or might) disrupt existing business models.
Any readers who follow media law might not be surprised by anything in this article, but for anyone else who is interested in copyright history, this article has a few interesting stories. The perspective is a bit slanted, but if memory serves, the accounts are quite accurate.