Category Rights Licensing
Creative Commons for Music: What’s the Point?
For most purposes, Creative Commons is like a burglar alarm sign on your lawn without the actual alarm system.
The Future of Music: From Blanket Licensing to Registries
At the Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit, discussions of copyright arcana, including the rising importance of global music rights registries.
HP Snapfish Goes into Stock Image Business
The wall between image-sharing sites and stock image agencies has finally been breached.
Google Book Settlement Rejection: A Missed Opportunity
The Book Rights Registry now looks like a lost cause.
European Music Rights Database Project Issues RFP
An “unfunded mandate” for a European musical analog to the Book Rights Registry.
Webinar on Rights Information Management
The part of the rights management iceberg that sits under the water line for media companies.
MOG Mashes Up On-Demand and Radio
What do you get when you cross on-demand streaming with customized web radio? An object-lesson on the needless complexities of music licensing.
Microsoft’s Search-Indexing Bribe to News Corp.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, especially if he pays me.
DRM Research: Alive and Well and Living near the Rhine
Highlights from the Virtual Goods Conference & ODRL Workshop in Nancy, France.
AP Pushes Ahead with Rights Microformat
A rights expression language scheme with ties to Creative Commons will be used for AP news content.
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