I wlll be appearing as the featured guest speaker at a roundtable discussion at Fordham Law School in NYC on Wednesday, October 14th at 8:45-10:00 am. We’ll discuss the state of algorithms for monitoring online services and detecting possible copyright infringements, and what effect the recent decision in Lenz v UMG might have on them. I’ll be providing […]
My latest column in Forbes takes the Apple’s decision to add ad-blocking primitives to iOS 9 as an occasion to look at the fast-growing phenomenon blocking ads in web browsers, and specifically to compare it to online copyright infringement. Both developments lead to revenue losses for content publishers. Both are occasioned by technological tools that […]
This past Monday’s ruling from the Ninth Circuit Appeals Court in Lenz v. Universal Music Group, a/k/a the Dancing Baby Video case, is being hailed as an important one in establishing the role of fair use in the online world. The case involved a common enough occurrence: a homemade video clip of someone’s child, with music (Prince’s “Let’s […]
Reports of DRM’s death in the music industry have been greatly exaggerated.
The EC focuses on cross-border licensing and copyright safe harbors for online service providers.
Will there be an equivalent to Google’s Content ID for live streams?
Business model flexibility with digital content leads to a blur between the public good and private enterprise.
A white paper covering the emerging world of MPEG DASH adaptive streaming, HTML5 technologies for cross-platform app development, and a DRM market that will continue to be fragmented for some time to come. Plus a workshop at NAB on April 14 to discuss these issues with industry experts.
A public meeting in Washington to gather input about the use of content identifiers and content identification technology in copyright licensing automation. Too bad it’s in less than three weeks.
Our next London conference, produced by Music Ally, will be Thursday 18 June.
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