MySpace, MTVN Pact to Monetize Content Posted by Users

In rececnt years, social networking sites and content sharing sites have become increasingly apart of our lives.  They have been created by innovative people who often don't have solid revenue models in mind when launching their sites.  MySpace and MTV Networks are...

Publishers See a Way to Track Their Content Across the Net

This has major implications for citizen journalism"Copyrighted work like a news article or a picture can hop between Web sites as easily as a cut-and-paste command. But more than ever, as that material finds new...

Fake MPAA-Sponsored Video Site Goes Offline

"A video download site that had been exposed as a front for the MPAA to catch those who download copyrighted content, as well as those who may have already downloaded it, has been taken offline. The site, called "MiiVi," contained whole downloads of movies as well as links to...

Jake Norton reflects on the discovery of George Mallory on Everest in 1999

I just came across this the other day - my immediate reaction on May 3, 1999, to our discovery 2 days earlier of George Mallory's remains at 27,000 feet on the North Face of Everest. I made the call in to our...

MySpace to use 'audio fingerprinting'

"The popular social networking site MySpace.com announced Monday that it has licensed technology that will help it prevent unauthorized copyrighted music from being posted to MySpace users’ pages. The “audio fingerprinting” technology, offered from Gracenote,...

OUTLOOK: The online video race heats up - fresh news today

Today's announcement that Warner Music Group Corp. has agreed to distribute and license its copyrighted songs and other material through online video trendsetter YouTube Inc. is more evidence of rapid...

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