Google offers free MP3 downloads from all four majors in the Chinese market. When will the model spread, and through whom?
The UK Government looks into the idea of a Digital Rights Agency.
The Federal Trade Commission holds a conference on consumer disclosure of DRM features in digital content products and services.
By Bill Jones Last year more mobile phones were sold globally than the aggregate sales of TVs, PCs, and cars put together. There are approximately 4 billion mobile phones in a world of more than 6.5 billion people. Penetration rates in some European countries are 150% (Italy), while some are as low as 80% (France […]
The Federal Trade Commission will be holding a workshop on DRM at the University of Washington Law School in Seattle on Wednesday, March 25. The main purpose of the conference will be to inform the FTC on possible actions it could take to mandate disclosure of information about digital content rights to consumers — rather […]
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 […]
Today Amazon is launching Kindle for iPhone and iPod Touch, an e-book reader application, available in the iPhone App Store at no charge. This is yet another major shift in platform tectonics for e-books, among so many in this young year already. And it shows that I was incorrect when I previously speculated that Amazon […]
By Azita Arvani Last week, we attended the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the largest global wireless show. Here are the DRM and copyright related highlights of the show. There was almost no mention of DRM, some mention of content protection, but lots of mobile music and video services around. Nokia is extending the Comes […]
Roy Blount Jr.’s op-ed piece in this Wednesday’s paper strikes a sour note.
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 […]
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