We are adding a fourth panel to the lineup at our upcoming conference on Tuesday September 13 at Fordham Law School in NYC, a panel on Standard Technical Measures for content identification. We’re still looking for moderators and speakers for all panels, so if you’re interested, please send me an email indicating your name, affiliation, panel of […]
As I announced a couple of weeks ago, the Copyright and Technology Conference will be back at Fordham Law School in New York City on Tuesday, September 13, 2022. The conference will be hybrid, with both in-person and virtual attendance possible. (Stay tuned for info on social activities for those who attend in person.) Here are […]
I’ve been quiet here for a long time, because I’ve been busily at work with Howie Singer on our forthcoming book Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Disrupted the Music Industry. The manuscript is almost ready to be handed off to Oxford University Press for production and publication. But in the nearer term, I am […]
I’m thrilled to announce that the Copyright and Technology Conference is back. We’re going to be virtual this year; the dates are September 22 and 23. Once again, I am proud to be co-producing the conference with the Copyright Society of the USA, which has been very successful with virtual events during the course of […]
It’s been a while since I’ve written here. There’s a reason for that: I’ve been working on a book. I’m working with Howie Singer — digital music pioneer at AT&T, former head of technology strategy at Warner Music Group, and fellow adjunct faculty in NYU’s Music Business program — on a book about the history […]
Twenty years ago, when the first generation of DRM technologies hit the market, one of the benefits they touted was that with DRM-packaged files, consumers could be sure that they were getting the genuine content from the source. For example, if the content was a scientific journal article with research results, they could be confident […]
Earlier this week, the New York Times ran a review of a new podcast by Keegan-Michael Key, of the comedy duo Key & Peele, called “The History of Sketch Comedy.” It features Key discoursing on the history of a medium that dates back to the ancient Sumerians and performing bits from classic sketches himself. Being […]
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) has just published a study on the ROI of rights and royalties systems in book publishing, which I did along with my colleague Steve Sieck. It’s free to BISG members. We interviewed executives at over a dozen publishing companies and literary agencies, and we worked with them to quantify […]
(This is my first article in a while; I have been working on a larger-scale writing project over the past couple of months, about which I hope to be able to share more soon. I am also in discussions with the Copyright Society of the USA about the next Copyright and Technology conference; we are […]
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) recently announced that it has released WIPO PROOF, a tool for verifying the date and time of a digital file, such as one containing a copyrightable work. For a nominal price of CHF 20 ($21), you can obtain a token–a small file–from WIPO that contains a tamper-proof timestamp with […]
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