“Intellectual property is the bedrock of the creative economy. The Labour Manifesto committed us to “modernise copyright and other forms of protection of intellectual property rights so that they are appropriate for the digital age…. an information rich society needs an easy exchange of ideas – after all, creativity often comes from collaboration, from putting existing ideas together in new ways. So, we need an IP framework that balances the
Apple to shift 37 million iPods in 2005: Apple will sell 37 million iPods in 2005 according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. Given that the company has sold a tad under 18 million so far this year, Munster is expecting much in the last quarter. Apple sold just over 8.2 million in 2004.
[InformationWeek]: Sony’s DRM system uses techniques normally employed by hackers and “can crash Windows.” Sony BMG Music Entertainment installed a “rootkit” in the copy-protection software distributed along with one of its music titles which exposes those systems to massive security vulnerabilities. Amatuears can’t even remove it. Sony has countered by saying that the copy-protection software is harmless, and issuing a patch, but hackers distributing code that could take advantage of
[Ahmedabad.com]: The head of the intellectual property rights association for the Indian Music Industry, said Gujarat in India is a big center for piracy and almost 80 per cent of inlaid covers used in duplicate cassettes, are printed in Ahmedabad.
[BBC]: A group legal action suit over the iPod nano has widened beyond the United States to includes consumers from the United Kingdom and Mexico. Consumers are alleging that the iPod nano screens are easily scratched. Apple says the problem only affects less than one-percent of its players. The law suit seeks a refund and a portion of Apple profits from player sales (yeah, right). In fact, Apple has agreed
The guys over at Custom Communication are organising an event called Blogging for Business: How Blogs Can Help and Hurt Your Business in February next year. Out of a lot of events about blogs (and believe me, I’ve been to a few) I’d say this is going to be one of the most properly focused yet. It’s often hard to pin down what, exactly, blogs are capable of in a
AOL, the most boring of all ISPs, is jumping into online music, after purchasing Musicnow.com. They’ll be offering a subscription music service similar Napster, Yahoo, and others. Cost? $10 a month for unlimited subscription downloads, and $15 if you want to transfer them to a compatible DAP. Will it work? Maybe. AOL is more “mainstream” than Napster for instance.
Check out the event I’m organising for 01Zero-One. It’s titled “Ambient Media: The poster that talked back”. There is more info here, see below for the gist: Outdoor or “ambient” advertising has always, by its very nature, been static. But now brands are going mobile via the poster… Mobile owners are being invited to enter competitions or download content and offers. The possibilities, as Bluetooth becomes more widespread, could be
If you’ve arrived here wondering where the coverage of Tuesday’s Musically event is, it’s over at MusicBites.com. Enjoy.
Any owner of copyright can license anything. What changes is whether you can control anything as a copyright, or if you try to monetise the anarchy. It#039s very easy to point fingers at the record industry, but the people on the Napster side of the desk have crossed and are trying to find legitimate ways of making P2P work. The industry has to trat the Net like radio and TV