France Bans Copy Protection For DVDs
In an unprecedented turn of events, a French appeals court in Paris has ruled that movie companies must remove copy protection from DVDs wit… Read more »
In an unprecedented turn of events, a French appeals court in Paris has ruled that movie companies must remove copy protection from DVDs wit… Read more »
Is this related to the much-vaunted “collaborative filtering” patent which Amazon.com has? Anyway, Cendant has sued Amazon on the recommenda… Read more »
A rather strange rambling story, though rings true, in more ways than one: mobile music players need to let the market flourish on its own,… Read more »
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This potentially could be a big blow to ContentGuard: the European Commission plans to send formal charges to Microsoft and Time Warner next… Read more »
(reg. req.): Philips has launched video-watermarking software that will enable content rights holders and criminal investigators to trace ba… Read more »
I’ll be at Jupitermedia’s DRM Strategies Conference later in the day (around noon)…I see that some of my regular readers are on some of th… Read more »
Digeo, the Paul Allen-backed maker of software and services for digital cable TV, has settled a patent infringement suit with PalmSource, ma… Read more »
AgentArts, a content personalization technology company, has received an interesting patent…it sounds a bit like Amazon.com’s collaborativ… Read more »
A dire prediction: “If instead this becomes bogged down in discussion and disagreement..and if becomes a glorified talking shop where nothin… Read more »
This is about the whole ContentGuard controversy in EU, where EU wants to investigate shareholders Microsoft and Time Warner…this explains… Read more »
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Bill Gates believes the fight to stop file-swapping online is a lost cause. “You can’t intercede,” he said. The trick, he added, is to use D… Read more »
Another interoperability alliance is being formed: The Coral Consortium will initially draw on support from giants including HP, Sony, Phili… Read more »
Four good stories on DRM, on Indicare website…
– An introduction to Privacy Rights Management: Combine DRM and privacy, simple…
– Righ… Read more »
Microsoft is attempting to force a last-minute pact with record labels over the future of copy-protected CDs, according to this story…Any… Read more »
BTG, a London-based IP firm, has filed suit against Amazon.com, Barnesandnoble.com, and two other Net companies for infringing on patents…… Read more »
An intellectual property holding company, DDB Technologies of Austin, Texas, is suing Major League Baseball for what it considers patent inf… Read more »
Be worried, very worried..Last week Macromedia settled with Forgent over JPEG patent infringement issue. Today Forgent creates “enhanced int… Read more »
Say what? According to US Patent 6,785,865 (Discoverability and navigation of hyperlinks via tabs – Cote et al), the practice of tabbing thr… Read more »
Adding more technical fuel to its Internet Protocol video-on-demand products, Kasenna has been awarded an additional three patents covering… Read more »
() (via IPCentral) A webcast of the recent “Future of Internet Summit”, by Aspen Institute.
Topics discussed included future of content, con… Read more »
Th EU opened up a four-month long investigation into Microsoft and Time Warner’s agreement to control ContentGuard, the DRM patent holder. S… Read more »
This just in: The European Commission plans to open an in-depth, four-month probe of plans by Microsoft and Time Warner to acquire joint con… Read more »
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has handed Microsoft a second victory in its dispute with Eolas, rejecting browser patent claims that c… Read more »
DRM is top of mind at the Seybold 2004 trade show, and everyone’s pushing their own schemes…
You’re surprised? Read more »
EU has delayed by two weeks its review decision about the proposed Microsoft and Time Warner joint venture to control DRM play ContentGuard.… Read more »
(via IPcentral): A 40-age HTML and PDF file/report released by the Congressional Budget Office, on copyright issues in digital media.
The pa… Read more »
Om points to an interesting experimental model on trying to assess the cost of DRMing content versus the cost of file sharing on the media a… Read more »
Now both can kill each other in the market instead of the courts…Google will license a patent held by Overture Services, which Yahoo acqui… Read more »
This just in: TiVo has received approval for technology that would permit users to send copies of digital broadcast shows over the Internet.… Read more »
E-Data, a small patent-only company that holds a key digital distribution patent, has reached a European agreement with Apple that gave the… Read more »
DRM adoption will lock out Linux and open-source software, Martin Fink, HP’s vice president for Linux said. “Unfortunately, DRM and open-sou… Read more »
DRM tech company Macrovision had a 22 percent rise in revenue for Q2, which helped drive profits sharply higher from a year earlier.
It repo… Read more »
A detailed story on the various DRM stakeholders related in the music industry. One way to approximate the influencing power of the various… Read more »
Leonardo Chiariglione, the founder of Moving Pictures Experts Group (MPEG), is moving ahead with his new Digital Media Project (DMP), hoping… Read more »
The DRM and music distribution vendor Music Public Broadcasting has relaunched itself as Media Rights Technologies. The company offers some… Read more »
According to the quarterly report Adobe filed with the SEC, the company was sued June 2 in U.S. District Court for Colorado by Information T… Read more »
That may be a tough headline to swallow, but play along..it is an interesting interview with one of the key players in the DRM market…
It… Read more »
“About the only ones not playing the DRM game aggressively at this point are the premium content providers servicing enterprises. They may h… Read more »
Large companies concerned with protecting digital documents and e-mail are expected to increase spending dramatically on DRM software, Jupit… Read more »
A wrapup of the recently held DRM conference in NYC…”One conclusion to take home from this conference is that the functionality and applic… Read more »
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