Author Archives: Bill Rosenblatt

DECE Releases Spec… But It’s a Secret

DECE requires a signed, non-negotiable NDA to look at its newly finalized spec. Also, results of last week’s poll about Apple iTunes Match.

iCloud Cuckoo Land

Apple’s iTunes Match offers amnesty for users with unauthorized music files. But how?

HP Snapfish Goes into Stock Image Business

The wall between image-sharing sites and stock image agencies has finally been breached.

Book Industry Bodies Consider DRM… Again

BISG and IDPF contemplate book industry-level action on DRM interoperability.

Music Forecast: Even Cloudier

Will the major record companies sue Google and Amazon over unlicensed music services? What exactly are the features that they could complain about?

The Next Battlefield: 3D Printing

The next generation in automated manufacturing technology will get cheap and personal. It will also raise a whole new level of messy concerns over intellectual property.

Copyright and Technology 2011 Conference: Crowdsourcing the Program

Send us your ideas for panels about legal issues.

Amazon To Enter Library Lending Market

When Kindle Library Lending launches, library patrons will be able to borrow e-books and read them on every popular device platform.

PlayReady on Android and iOS Shines at NAB

Third party vendors step in with PlayReady DRM implementations for popular mobile platforms. Also, a personal appeal for aid to evacuees in Japan.

Music Forecast: Cloudy

Cloud sync of music across a user’s devices requires a license from record companies… or does it?