I nearly fell out of my chair when I read CRM News: Strategy: Is Your Supply Chain Going Gray? Frustrated that the Supreme Court has made is so that “Copyright lawyers won’t save you” because the Copyright Act makes it clear that copyrights do not extend to control over re-distribution of lawfully made copies owned […]
The article by Shannon P. Duffy appeasing in Law.com’s
3rd Circuit Upholds FCC’s Deregulation of High-Speed Internet Access succumbs to the regulation/de-regulation doublespeak pressed by the Internet regulators. I would have hoped a law rag would have been sharp enough to avoid such gullibility.
This is not at all a ruling in favor of deregulation. To […]
Universal Music Group (UMG) has taken steps calculated to exercise control over copies (”phonorecords”) it may not own. In one case, Universal Republic is said to be threatening music retailers selling imported copies of the album it plans to release this fall. The basis for the threat is not clear to me, given that press […]
When Warner Brothers backed Wal-Mart’s plan to offer movie downloads along with a DVD, critics booed, but missed the point.
It is hard to know what to make of HarperCollins’ new initiative to allow book browsing. Bookstores have long permitted customers to browse books on display – a shrink-wrapped book is more likely to be passed over. For online shoppers, services like Amazon.com’s online book-browsing are a terrific complement to reading reviews, […]
It was only a matter of time before book publishers jumped on the DMCA-enabled copyright expansion bandwagon. Book publisher Random House and Sylvania, a leading light bulb manufacturer, announced today the launch of a new strategic partnership. Beginning April 1, 2007, Random House will begin publishing all of its books using a specialized […]
The New York Times reported that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is investigating possible antitrust violations in the pricing of songs sold by Internet music services. If true, retailers in the music, movie, book and video game downloading business, or those who might hope to compete in that space, will certainly hope that […]
The National Institute on Media and the Family issued its Tenth Annual MediaWise Video Game Report Card. The Report begins with quite a bit of the same foolishness that has characterized past endeavors, as it addresses a “problem” that can only exist in problem families.
They have for years complained about the Entertainment Software Ratings […]
Today, the Texas Attorney General filed suit against Sony BMG under the Texas Consumer Protection Against Computer Spyware Act, seeking redress for the recently-reported practice of surreptitiously installing “cloaking” software that is very difficult to remove and reportedly leaves computers vulnerable to third parties who would use it to hide malicious code.
This may be terrific […]
CD Freaks.com reports that EMI Group expects iTunes to offer flexible pricing within a year . The report suggests growing pressure from some record companies to control iTunes’ retail price in the name of “flexible pricing.” The problem is that if this is true, it may be illegal.
Record companies are already free to […]