More Articles By Paul Sweeting
- DVD-CCA files brief in Kaleidescape appeal
DEC. 18 | FROM CONTENTAGENDA: The DVD Copy Control Assn. filed its initial appellate brief Monday with the California Court of Appeal in the Kaleidescape case. The brief asks the court to overrule the trial judge in the case, who found that Kaleidescape had not breached the CSS license agreement in designing its home-media servers. More - OPINION: Seeking copyright parity
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda DEC. 7 | The massive intellectual property bill introduced this week by the bi-partisan leadership of the House Judiciary Committee is a marked departure from previous IP legislation. More - OPINION: Sony plays hardball
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda NOV. 30 | Whether out of desperation or strategic planning, Sony finally seems to be taking bold steps to reclaim some of its lost stature. More - Slowing DVD sales could sink studios
NOV. 27 | FROM CONTENTAGENDA: Slowing sales of DVDs is undercutting studio profits and could eventually impact the valuations of several major media companies, a Wall Street analyst said Monday. More - OPINON: Web 2.slow
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda NOV. 21 | The report released Monday on the limits of Internet capacity , by Mokena, Ill.-based Nemertes Research, should be required reading for anyone involved in developing new, bandwidth-heavy applications for the Web, like video delivery . More - Copyright group wades into presidential campaign
NOV. 20 | FROM CONTENTAGENDA: WASHINGTON— The Copyright Alliance, made up of a broad range of industry groups and companies with a shared interest in promoting intellectual property rights, on Tuesday sent questionnaires to all 17 presidential campaigns soliciting their positions on copyright protection and enforcement. More - Senators question Mature rating of Manhunt 2 videogame
NOV. 19 | WASHINGTON— Four U.S. senators released a letter they sent Monday to the president of the videogame ratings board calling for a “thorough review” of the system in the wake of Rockstar Games’ Manhunt 2 receiving a “Mature” rating, rather than the more restrictive “Adults Only” designation, after the publisher made some minor revisions to the game. More - OPINION: High-def tortoise and the hare
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda NOV. 16 | While the two warring hardware camps lurch through another inconclusive fourth-quarter, keeping befuddled consumers on the sidelines, high-definition video is starting to find its way onto the Internet as technology providers begin to piece together the necessary infrastructure. More - OPINION: Contract talks
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda NOV. 9 | What we’re seeing in the current dispute between writers and producers over residuals for new media is simply the first step in what is likely to be a long and probably painful process by which the media industry comes to grips with the profound changes being worked by digital technology. More - CinemaNow, Sonic offer CSS-enabled burning
NOV. 6 | Video download service CinemaNow and Sonic Solutions on Tuesday will announce a deal to bundle access to CinemaNow’s library of movie and TV content with Sonic’s Roxio Venue download management software. The deal between CinemaNow and Sonic will mark the first major consumer application of CSS-enabled burning. More - OPINION: Copy regime
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda NOV. 2 | A proposal by three studios to establish a managed-copy regime for DVDs could get derailed this week by continued legal skirmishing between the DVD Copy Control Assn. and Kaleidescape Systems , a maker of high-end home media servers. More - OPINION: Movie downloads 101
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda OCT. 26 | The five studios behind Movielink sank $148 million and change into the download venture over six years before selling it to Blockbuster earlier this year for a kind word and a handshake. Call it the price of an education. More - OPINION: Filtering YouTube
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda OCT. 19 | The digital-rights management wars more or less officially entered a new phase this week with the unveiling of Google ’s long-promised content filtering system for YouTube . More - Media, tech companies call for filtering standards
OCT. 18 | FROM CONTENT AGENDA: A group of major media companies and platform providers released a “statement of principles” regarding the protection of copyrighted content on user-generated video platforms—and it’s quite an eyeful. More - AACS still trying to manage copying
OCT. 15 | FROM CONTENTAGENDA: The AACS Licensing Administrator has finally wised up and stopping giving estimates of when it might finish work on a final DRM license. The eight member companies of AACS-LA met in Japan last week, where they inched the ball forward but still have much to do. More - OPINION: Leveling the scale
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda OCT. 12 | “ BitTorrent ” is still a dirty word in Hollywood. But with its announcement this week that it has begun licensing its Digital Network Accelerator (DNA) service to online video providers, BitTorrent Inc. has taken a significant step toward resolving scalability . More - OPINION: By the numbers
Paul Sweeting is editor of Content Agenda OCT. 5 | The Institute for Policy Innovation, a Texas-based pro-business think tank, released a report this week that estimates total losses to piracy for four “core” U.S. copyright industries at $58 billion per year. More - Study puts U.S. losses from piracy at $58 bil.
OCT. 3 | FROM CONTENT AGENDA: The Institute for Policy Innovation, a pro-business think tank based in Dallas, Texas, will release a new study Wednesday pegging total losses to the U.S. economy from copyright piracy at $58 billion. More - Warner burns up Japan
OCT. 1 | FROM CONTENT AGENDA: Proponents of on-demand manufacturing and in-home burning of DVDs wondering whether the major studios are ready to embrace the new business model can look to Japan for comfort. More - Blu-ray eyeing China
OCT. 1 | FROM CONTENT AGENDA: After initially turning a cold shoulder to China, the Blu-ray Disc Assn. is warming up to Chinese OEMs and consumers, BDA spokesman and Pioneer Electronics senior VP Andy Parsons tells Content Agenda. More
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