Seeking input on research topics, the National Academies uncover some contentious issues.

Text of the remarks I made at the National Academies workshop on the Impact of Copyright Policy on Innovation in the Digital Era, Friday, October 15 in Washington, DC.

Dollar-a-show TV is not the future of television, not even if Apple thinks it is.

Will the Hollywood consortium target small video retailers?

Yes, it’s a hack. No, it’s not equivalent to the DeCSS hack for DVDs.

Is this the beginning of the era of “verbal DRM”?

More evidence that rights technologies can promote choice in business models. Whether the choices are appropriate or not is another question.

By a quirk of calendar timing, the week-long doldrums before the Labor Day holiday in the US are extended to two weeks this year.  This means that the slow end-of-summer news period will extend for a while.  In the meantime, I noticed that more people voted in the U.S. Rights Technologies Deficit poll that I […]

An “unfunded mandate” for a European musical analog to the Book Rights Registry.

Will people pay for access to music without paying for the music itself? Thanks to Catch Media and Carphone Warehouse, we’ll find out.