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Hell Is For Interactive Music Video

English band Hell Is For Heroes having success with interactive music video: [EMI] home to the likes of Robbie Williams, Coldplay, Blur and Radiohead, has already produced the world’s first fully interactive video and is so pleased with the results that it plans to repeat the trick with several of …

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Saturday Morning

Casting my damaged memory back 30+ years, I used to actually get up early to watch Saturday morning cartoons, where the animated fruits of the network’s imaginations were fed to kids like some national electronic breakfast. I especially loved the music cartoons like the Banana Splits, Archies, Beatles, Fat Albert, …

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Marley Video and Book

Using free to sell not-free via Altnet – the “first peer-to-peer network created to give consumers easy access to secure content that originates from content owners” – which piggybacks off of Kazaa: Altnet today announced that it has secured the exclusive distribution rights to artist and author Lee Jaffe’s never-been-seen-before …

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TiVO Licensing to New DVD Players

TiVO inside: TiVo Inc., whose technology allows television viewers to pause and replay live shows, on Thursday said it will license a bare-bones version of its service primarily to makers of DVD players. In an effort to increase its subscriber base, TiVo will license consumer electronics makers to build devices …

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P2P Attitudes Poll Released

New poll says teens cool with P2P: Only 27% of American teenagers believe that those who download or share digital music files without artist or label permission are breaking the law, according to just-released polling data. Legality aside, just 20% of teens think that such activity is ‘wrong.’ Asked the …

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AOL Broadband Push

Live concert webcasts exemplify AOL’s big move into broadband: With the thunderous beat of the Foo Fighters shaking the bar stools at the Black Cat club in Washington, the band’s lead singer, Dave Grohl, told hundreds jamming the stage that their reach extended all the way through cyberspace. “Hey, man,” …

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Hearing on Murdoch DirecTV Acquisition

Sen. John McCain said he wanted satellite TV to compete with cable more effectively to keep cable prices down, is Murdoch the answer? Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch told a congressional committee yesterday that a merger of his News Corp. television-and-movie empire with the nation’s leading home satellite TV service would …

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Legal Perspective on the Grokster and Napster Rulings

Chris Sprigman writes on FindLaw: On April 25, in M-G-M v. Grokster, U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by a group of movie studios and record companies against Grokster and Morpheus. ….To see what is likely to occur in the future, it’s helpful first to …

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