Author Archives: Bill Rosenblatt
Google Book Settlement Rejection: A Missed Opportunity
The Book Rights Registry now looks like a lost cause.
Irdeto Sets Next Level in Video Content Protection
Irdeto’s ActiveCloak for Media is a real breakthrough, not only in content protection technology but also in attitude about hacks.
E-Book Lending: The Serpent in the Garden of Eden
Is HarperCollins heralding the slow, painful death of library e-book lending?
Are Libraries Locked Out of the E-book World?
Are there market or legal alternatives to the Kindle for library e-book lending?
Are Subscriptions Against Apple’s Religion?
Apple offers a paid-subscription model for content services that seems like a reluctant gesture, while Google takes the opportunity to offer more flexibility for less revenue share.
Don’t Know Much about E-co-no-my
…but economists seem to have keener insight into the future of content in the digital age than often credited. Like Eduardo Porter of the New York Times, for example.
Taking Pictures of Magazine Articles in a Bookstore: A Conundrum
The New York Times’s Nick Bilton wonders whether taking digital photographs of magazine articles in a bookstore is copyright infringement. But what about the Times’s act of publishing the article?
DECE Announces UltraViolet Roadmap and Usage Rules
DECE announces its roadmap and its content usage rules at CES.
Cricket Wireless Sings the Same Old Song
Is the new MuveMusic service from Cricket Wireless a “game changer for everyone”? Hardly.
Tim Wu’s Master Switch
Columbia law professor Tim Wu explains how the power behind information technologies flows toward corporate monopolists.
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