YouTube and Copyright Woes
I was on the comments section of Mathew Ingrams blog just now - nerdy or what? - and found what I think is fascinating information for many of us on YouTube and Copyright but it matters not just to YouTube.
YouTube’s apparent defence against writs for copyright infringement is the US safe harbour clause that […]
Next Gen Content - Image Metrics
The New York Times’ vidcast this morning reports on Image Metrics’ new image mapping software, a product that facilitates auto-generated animation for the movie industry.
It works like this - Image Metrics’ software allows film-makers to map the deteail of human performance, particularly facial performance and then to produce animation from it. Humans perform, the […]
Rick Segal Explains B5 Backing
I sat down yesterday with Rick Segal and Shel Israel to discuss the future of content. One of the many topics: B5. I’ll come back later to the discussion I had with Shel.
Rick’s view is that the web as it now stands allows people to go back to a more trible form of congregation. Instead […]
EU Rules On Video Won’t Control Tribes
The Times story about EU rules that might force websites that carry video and advertising to register, be licensed or otherwise heavily regulated have a twenty year gestation and were born to restrict. It’s interesting to see how they have evolved because by coincidence I did the research on the early attempts to control cross-frontier […]
A Goldrush Called Second Life Namespace is Also About Sex
Clickable Culture talks today about the sale of Second Life names (right now you have to choose from a list given by Second life).
Second Life now intend making names a tradable item, pretty much like domain names, though more expensive (like $100).
I wrote about Second Life in the Irish Times recently and, weird, then […]
New Roaming Video Nodes
Sometimes I’m a day late onto things, this time at least a week. It was reported first here, Michael Rosenblum is busy setting up a network of video news reporters around the US connurbations for the collection and distribution of news via cell, cable and web.
The idea is to recruit young people to video news […]
Today’s Media Pulse
“We are all still fighting tooth and nail for our traditional businesses that still account for the majority of our profits.”
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Guardian Media Group CEO Carolyn McCall at the Association of Online Publishers. annual conference.
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Today’s Content Pulse
American media are experiencing a decline in world audience market share, according to British media expert Jeremy Tunstall, author of the forthcoming book “The Media Were American.” India, China and Japan now have media exports that equal, or exceed, their media imports.
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Quotes from Cross Media Week
Quotes from Cross Media Week.
“I predict that within 18 months there will be a new major brand that has emerged from Second Life and only from Second Life.” Andrew McGregor Text 100 Pr
“YouTube could become the next Napster. Over the next few months it’s all guns blazing.” Marc Canter.
“There are people who don’t believe […]
IPTV’s Forward March
KPN the Dutch telco have a strong presence at crossmedia week - as you’d expect so I sat down and talked to the head of their consumer content division, Joris Van Heukelom, formerly of MTV.
They’re quite different organisations, telcos and TV companies I put to him. Well telcos have to embrace creativity that’s for sure, […]