Category Rights Licensing
Geospatial Data: A New Old Data Type for DRM?
Geospatial data spans government, corporate, and consumer domains. How can or should DRM apply there?
Gridlock at the World Copyright Summit
Collecting society executives convene in Washington to consider their places in the digital age.
EC Commissioners Propose Pan-European Content Licensing
A step towards removing barriers to innovation in European digital content services.
Attributor Gathers Publishers to Share Ad Revenue from Unauthorized Content Use
The Fair Syndication Consortium will use text fingerprinting to find unauthorized uses of publishers’ content and attempt to share ad revenue.
YouTube’s War with European Collecting Societies
YouTube stands off against UK and German music collecting societies over royalty terms.
Attributor Integrates Creative Commons with Text Fingerprinting
The text fingerprinting provider Attributor launched a beta version of a service called FairShare last week. FairShare enables anyone with an RSS feed — bloggers, for example — to attach Creative Commons noncommercial licenses to their content and use Attributor’s technology to track where their content is to be found on the web. There’s no […]
The New York Times as a Soapbox for Content Creators Getting Paid in the Digital Age
Roy Blount Jr.’s op-ed piece in this Wednesday’s paper strikes a sour note.
More on Google’s Publishing Settlement
Interest keeps growing among the publishing industry in its litigation settlement with Google. I will be moderating the keynote panel on this subject for the book track at Publishing Business Expo on Tuesday, March 24 in NYC. This panel will be particularly exciting because the speakers will be primary representatives of the three constituencies […]
New White Paper: Google’s Settlement with the Publishing Industry
I’ve just published a white paper on Google’s settlement with the publishing industry and its implications for future digital publishing business models. As I’ve described previously, the settlement calls for the establishment of an independent Book Rights Registry, which will manage information about rights and royalties for book content sold through Google Book Search and […]
Google’s Settlement with Publishers: Looking Down the Road
Future business models specified in the publishers’ settlement agreement with Google call for new business models that require structured content instead of page images. Will Google go to the trouble?
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