Category Archives: Media
Orphan works
Google is not the only one thinking about the digitization of all – or at least part – of the human written knowledge. The European Union is promoting a project for the digitization of the European culture in order to … Continue reading
Let’s go outside…
Last week, Mr. Gary Shapiro, CEO and President of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), made a direct j’accuse to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The accusation came in response to a letter sent by RIAA to Rep. Rick … Continue reading
Letters from a lawyer
Who likes receiving letters from a lawyer? Nobody, I suppose, especially if the lawyer represents a big media company and you are the poor guy chosen as scapegoat for the war against P2P. But the guys of thepiratebay.org give us … Continue reading
It’s football time
It’s football time! and hokusai.fatbombers cannot abstains from talking about the worldcup, but from its own personal point of view. And the funniest thing I’ve found (thanks to Elena for the hint) is the funny championship-inside-the-championship that Managing Intellectual Property … Continue reading
When new distribution channels help the old ones…
Going on with the issue of new media distribution channels and strategies of a previous post, yesterday NBC presented the first quantitative data about the Apple partnership effects on NBC shows distributed via iTunes. The results are quite surprising, at … Continue reading
Soderbergh vs Hollywood
With “Bubble” by Steven Soderbergh’s we’ll expertise a real revolution in the way movies are distributed. The movie, cost $1.7 million and produced with Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s dot-com dollars, will try to brake Hollywood’s (and Bolliwood’s as well) … Continue reading