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

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

The Book Rights Registry now looks like a lost cause.

Irdeto’s ActiveCloak for Media is a real breakthrough, not only in content protection technology but also in attitude about hacks.

Is HarperCollins heralding the slow, painful death of library e-book lending?

Are there market or legal alternatives to the Kindle for library e-book lending?

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.

…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.

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 its roadmap and its content usage rules at CES.