Digital Asset Management

Covering Your Assets « RightsPro Blog. Since the advent of the Internet and digital technology, it has never been easier for someone to rip off your work. It happens every day, despite the parameters of copyright law, which give an author exclusive rights to his or her creative content. The idea behind this legislation is [...]

Copyright Criminals: This Is a Sampling Sport examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money

Google’s DLF – Don’t Throw Out The Metadata With The Bathwater « From Gunar. Great that Google is making their data more portable.  However, they really need to ensure that the assets they deliver from the cloud contains the metadata – otherwise they are selling you short. Brian Fitzpatrick of Google’s Data Liberation Front (DLF) was [...]

Authors and Publishers Argue Over Digital Rights to Older Books – NYTimes.com. William Styron may have been one of the leading literary lions of recent decades, but his books are not selling much these days. Now his family has a plan to lure digital-age readers with e-book versions of titles like “Sophie’s Choice,” “The Confessions [...]

Brave New World: Hard and Soft DRM: Part 2. What we have in the physical world today is ‘Soft DRM’. We print a page in the front matter of the book which informs all of the copyright licence and who owns it etc. Whether it is a traditional notice or a creative commons licence, the [...]

Scott Bowen CEO OpenText Artesia talks to Paul Quigley about the new challenges for business in the world of rich media. DAM Talk 5 Record Management, Metadata and DRM

More Trouble for File Sharing: Virgin to Monitor in UK. Virgin Media, one of the UK’s leading providers of television / broadband / mobile / phone services, has announced plans to use deep packet inspection technology to track illegal file-sharing activity among around 40 percent of its UK users. Users whose activities are being monitored will [...]

DRM for Real-Time Media: Justin.tv Now Protecting Video Streams With Digital Fingerprinting . This week, Justin.tv is rolling out new measures to protect copyrighted live video streams from being pirated on their site. The technology the company is using will allow them to remove pirate channels without having to issue a takedown notice first. Using technology [...]

ACTA Guilty Until Proven Innocent Last week saw the latest round of secret negotiations on ACTA, on criminal enforcement of IP, enforcement in the digital environment, and, according to one of the few public documents on the negotiations, ACTA’s own “transparency”. It’s hard to imagine a more controversial set of IP topics — and underlying them [...]

Interesting NPR Series: The End of Privacy « The Documentalist. This week, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered has been airing a series called  “The End of Privacy.” The articles call attention to the fact that social media platforms (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace),  email and web crawling services (e.g., Gmail/Google or Yahoo!), and even cell [...]