tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278340122011-08-08T22:36:16.599-04:00...A Non-profit Industry Association Connecting Florida's Digital Media, Art & Entertainment Companies, Institutions & Professionals...Jamie Flanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18304967274982267962noreply@blogger.comBlogger731100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-10657224371960817682007-05-29T23:44:00.000-04:002007-05-30T00:37:07.295-04:00

It's spring cleaning time here at DMAF. Every file and folder in the web site is being dusted off, cleaned and polished. Some will be archived; some will be moved; some will be created anew. But everything will be ready for our June 6 celebration. You may need to refresh your cache to see some of the changes though hopefully this will be kept to a minimum. Watch this space, our blogs and our

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Nationally Syndicated Morning Show to Relocate to Full Sail Campus 
The Daily Buzz Moving to New State-of-the-Art Facilities

 
WINTER PARK, FL, May 15, 2007 – Full Sail Real World Education and ACME Communications (NASDAQ: ACME) announced today that The Daily Buzz, ACME’s leading nationally syndicated morning show, will move to the Full Sail campus in Winter Park, Florida beginning June 2007.

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Source RedOrbitJon Peddie Research announces the release of the 2007 Digital Content Creation Report. This year's report includes sections on 3D modeling and Animation, 2D Animation, Digital Video, Graphics and Imaging, and Audio.The digital content creation market has seen a healthy period of growth. The total DCC market grew 16% from $2.6 billion to reach more than $3 billion in 2006. The

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FINANCIAL INCENTIVE BILL PASSES THIRD HOUSE COMMITTEE UNANIMOUSLY. HB1325 passed unanimously through the House Policy & Budget Council Thursday afternoon, April 5.   The bill is now ready for consideration to be voted on by the entire House chamber.  The amended version of the bill will be posted soon to the following website http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=

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[from FilminFlorida] -- HB 1325 will indeed be heard tomorrow (Thursday, April 5) in the Policy and Budget Council of the House of Representatives, its final stop before going to the floor of the House for a final vote.  Meeting is scheduled from 9:00AM to 4:00PM in room 212 of the Knott Building, a wing off of the Capitol buildingin Tallahassee. The bill will feature a few technical amendments

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DRM-Free Songs from EMI Available on iTunes for $1.29 in MayCUPERTINO, California—April 2, 2007—Apple® today announced that EMI Music's entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com) worldwide in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in

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[Reposted from FilminFlorida.com]
"Our digital media industry, led by Digital Media Alliance Florida (DMAF) and their members, did a bang-up job of educating our legislators with their multi-booth set-up on the Plaza level of the Capitol building. Exhibits from the DAVE school, Electronic Arts, Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy, Engineering & Computer Simulations, Inc., and Web Wise

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As a gadget-freak with a long history of multitasking (I started playing the drums at age 10, and would be lost with out my Palm Treo's phone/pda/MP3 player/camera/videocam/IM/web/email/reminder capabillities...) Steve Lohr's article in the March 25th NYT, "Slow Down, Brave Multitasker, and Don’t Read This in Traffic", was of particular interest to me personally.As our industry explores,

Jamie Flanaganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18304967274982267962noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-59328313743431110312007-03-26T22:13:00.000-04:002007-03-27T16:32:28.692-04:00

We're still planning to move but the move has been delayed a day, so we will be down [March 27, 2007] (after midnight EST) while all the files are uploaded.Later tonight [March 26, 2007] (after midnight EST), we'll be moving to a new server at Bluehost. During the move, the main site may be unavailable for a brief period of time. After we come back up we invite everyone to register at our all

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Sony Music Studios recently announced a new audio mastering service that is only available online. Any audio track that you upload is quickly mastered by award winning Sony engineers and returned digitally in 2 business days for only $99 a song; physical deliverables are also available for an additional cost.. (According to the website, the service is still in beta...)It seems to me that they're

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Pardon our pixels. Our Database is currently down as it is being both upgraded and moved to a higher performance server in order to better serve our members. During this time all the links in the external Membership Area are available but empty of data. This also affects some Internal links: Events, Showcase Cool Stuff and Login being among those links. If you're looking to become a first-time

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From USA Today, here's a list of 6 music recommendation/discovery services that are pretty easy to use and mostly free...To be honest, I'd never heard of a few of Goombah, but MusicIP is my personal favorite...although Pandora is pretty compelling too...Try them out and see which one is your favorite! I guarantee they'll bring an added dimension to your listening pleasure :-)MusicIP Mixer:

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"According to the Music Marketing Network, with 40% of the USA's 177 million internet users going online for music, by placing your music online, you gain a potential audience of 70 million. Globally, with 404 million total internet users, your potential audience grows to 161 million.''...The statistics are in and Nielsen Soundscan cited a 'dramatic increase' in digital download music sales for

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AACS is Unbreakable!It's pretty amazing when you think about how hard Hollywood has fought to lock down video content and then a video like this shows just how easy it really is to make a personal copy or backup of DVD's that you buy...

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The NPD Group posted a press release last week that confirms what everyone already knows - Adult-oriented content is the most popular genre among those who dowload video files via P2P. The research also indicates that:Among U.S. households with members who regularly use the Internet, 8 percent (six million households) downloaded at least one digital video file (10MB or larger) from a P2P service

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1166183303272404882006-12-15T06:46:00.000-05:002006-12-15T06:48:23.283-05:00

(Via press release) The Future of Music Coalition publicly released its report this week documenting the effects of radio station ownership consolidation on musicians and the public.Data in the 116 page report shows that station ownership consolidation at the national and local levels has led to fewer choices in radio programming and harmed the listening public and those working in the music and

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1165923835123888082006-12-12T06:43:00.000-05:002006-12-12T06:46:13.100-05:00

(from press release) The Akamai Net Usage Index for Digital Music is the world's first and only daily Web traffic benchmark that tracks where and when digital music is being consumed on a global basis. Key to the relevance of the index - is the fact that Akamai is the delivery platform for many of the leading global digital music companies - giving it a unique view into the daily Web traffic of

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With all the ZUNE-bashing lately, here's an interesting article from last Wednesday's Good Morning Silicon Valley, which talks about one of the most innovative and distinguishing business models out there called WEEDSHARE and Microsoft's recent desire to use it....no...copy it....umm...I mean share it :-) It's been updated twice since the original post (with some inquisitive patent comments at

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According to the latest research from iSuppli, The global market for digital recorded music, (delivered both via broadband and over mobile-phone networks,) is expected to grow by nearly six-fold during the period from 2005 to 2010.Due to the rapid growth of these two segments, iSuppli believes the worldwide market for digital recorded music will reach $14.9 billion in revenue by 2010, expanding

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1164024570342514882006-11-20T07:07:00.000-05:002006-11-20T07:09:30.350-05:00

The folks over at Rhapsody have released a new 33 page PDF white paper which provides an overview of Rhapsody DNA, the music software platform that enables integration of the Rhapsody experience directly into hardware, software and the Web. Rhapsody DNA is an extension to the Rhapsody music service that provides the entire technology stack needed for a Rhapsody-branded consumer facing experience.

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[via press release] "The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), an international group of industry leading companies, recently announced a new white paper that discusses how digital watermarking can effectively address the copyright and content identification issues facing the peer-to-peer (P2P) and social networking communities.The PDF white paper outlines how content owners can embed digital

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Below are the key findings of a recent report commissioned by www.soundflavor.com and conducted by Insight Express via the Internet from June 8-12, 2006. Consumers are clearly frustrated trying to find new music online, but apparently, help is on the way...the answer is Soundflavor DJ, which is powered by the Soundflavor Music Recommendation Engine, which is based on more than six years of

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1159882949673972502006-10-03T09:42:00.000-04:002006-10-03T09:42:29.920-04:00

Apple's Fairplay DRM solution has been reserve-engineered by "DVD Jon" and he's apparently going to try to license the solution to other companies who want their digital products on iPods - beyond MP3 quality..."Instead of breaking the DRM (something he's already done), Jon has replicated it, and wants to license the technology to companies that want their content (music,movies, etc.) to play on

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1159616142691120142006-09-30T07:29:00.000-04:002006-09-30T08:04:23.476-04:00

ComScore Releases U.S. Video Metrix RankingsVideo Metrix is the first and only service to track actual online streaming video behavior among U.S. Internet users, offering publishers and advertisers valuable insights into the emerging Internet video universe. According to the latest press release, Flash video content is now part of the monthly rankings for streaming video sites and as a result -

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The Pew Internet Project announces the release of its second report on The Future of the Internet. (For the full report, please click HERE.) The report is built around respondents' responses to scenarios stretching to the year 2020 and hundreds of their written elaborations that address such things as the kinds of new social interactions that will occur when more "meetings" take place on screens;

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1158837484714277922006-09-21T07:18:00.000-04:002006-09-21T07:18:04.946-04:00

Since its inception in 2003, MusicTank has earned its title as the UK music business network- a collaborative community that overrides traditional industry partitions in all genres. The network also hosts regular think tanks which bring hot topics into sharp focus and help pinpoint the opportunities created by disruptive technologies."In composing this first ever review of MusicTank activity,

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1158232999721195772006-09-14T07:22:00.000-04:002006-09-16T12:33:31.973-04:00

Thanks to our friends over at the Wired Blog called the Listening Post, cracking Apples Fairplay DRM for the new iTunes 7 is pretty simple using version 2.3 of the application called QTFairUse6 created by the clever hackers inhabiting the pages of http://www.hymn-project.org/. (The only drawback is that it removes the usability restrictions one song at a time and leaves you with a naked file in

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1157912581641551132006-09-10T14:19:00.000-04:002006-09-10T14:24:15.823-04:00

PRESS RELEASE: Last week The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) released a document designed to help promote a greater public understanding of the choices and tradeoffs associated with products and services that include Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology.An electronic PDF copy of the paper is available at:http://www.cdt.org/copyright/20060907drm.pdfA handy reference sheet is

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1156336361347499322006-08-23T08:28:00.000-04:002006-08-23T08:36:40.183-04:00

Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age - Click HERE to read the White Paper online, which reports on a year-long study by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The study explores whether innovative educational uses of digital technology – everything from DVDs in the classroom to digital music

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1155995426508643372006-08-19T09:38:00.000-04:002006-08-19T10:35:55.626-04:00

Here's a 6 minute VIDEO of the American Association of Music (a2im) President, Don Rose and Membership Director, Rob Weitzner, discussing the Top 10 Reasons Indies Do It Better. After only 1 year in existence, the a2im has over 125 member labels and 60 associate members. (sorry in advance for the room echo!)The "Indie Show" panel was sponsored by San Diego-based Royaltyshare, who officially

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1155560329714379932006-08-14T08:27:00.000-04:002006-08-14T09:02:40.823-04:00

The 2nd research presentation of the day was presented by Chris Muratore and Rob Sisco, from Nielsen SoundScan. It was reported that Nielsen is currently the only pan-american music tracking service and they are now seeing the trending in Europe. One example of this is that mobile full-track downloads are outpacing PC downloads across the pond...(It's worth noting that SoundScan tracks over 300

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1155299557187786492006-08-11T07:49:00.000-04:002006-08-11T08:32:37.850-04:00

Friday's NARM/NPD part III research results were delivered by Russ Crupnick from The NPD Group. (NARM promised to send the almost-completed report to its members soon, but if you were smart enough to have attended, NPD also gave out free USB stick drives with Parts I&II on them.) It's important to note that NPD's research did not look at the impact of ringtones.)There are just over 150 million

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Day two of NARM's annual meeting started off with a brief presentation by president Jim Donio, where he gave an insightful overview of the industry and shared several ways in which NARM is trying to help its members. For example, the organization's Media On Demand task force has evolved into a broader Digital Entertainment Council to deal with the wider range of challenges facing the industry.

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1154894774832202612006-08-06T14:54:00.000-04:002006-08-06T16:06:14.940-04:00

I've posted 20 photos of the 4-day NARM show just held at the Gaylord Palms in Kissimee, FL.Click HERE to see them on Flickr. I'm still working on summarizing my notes and editing some video footage. Check back soon as I will post more info and media from Days 2-4...

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The 48th annual NARM show is officially underway at the spectacular new Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee, FL with over 1,300 expected attendees. Established in 1958, NJ-based National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) is a not-for-profit trade association that serves the music retailing community in the areas of networking, advocacy, information, education and promotion. NARM's

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1154519087022482782006-08-02T07:44:00.000-04:002006-08-02T07:44:47.133-04:00

As if Ringtones, ringbacks and drop-tones weren't enough, Indian cellular provider Cellebrum.com has launched a customized background music (BGM) solution as its latest offering, allowing users to play music in the background during a call..."Technically, it is a conference service, which involves the calling party, called party and the music playing entity, which is also, part of the conference

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On Friday, August 4th, Pandora's very own Tim Westergren will be hosting a FREE 'town hall' meeting of sorts for local Pandora listeners at the House Blend Cafe in Ocoee (right off Highway 50, a few miles from downtown). It will be a great opportunity to talk directly with music afficionados about the innovative interactive streaming music service and discuss its future development, as well as

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1153788812977246422006-07-24T20:53:00.000-04:002006-07-24T20:54:40.596-04:00

Apparently, many people are surprised that when they post their user-generated digital media content to online places like MySpace and YouTube, they're actually giving these popular destinations the right to distribute it, sell ads against it, and generally make money from it...But don't be surprised...this is a new type of business model - aggregating an audience around consumer generated

Todd Bealshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06551917616143334639noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27834012.post-1153660917526770742006-07-23T09:21:00.000-04:002006-07-23T09:21:57.720-04:00

According to Engadget, Microsoft is actually going to pay for users to switch to Zune - which is quite a risky (but compelling) value proposition..."To attract current iPod users Microsoft is going to let you download for free any songs you've already bought from the iTunes Music Store. They'll actually scan iTunes for purchased tracks and then automatically add those to your account. Microsoft

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Well it's official...Yesterday, MSFT confirmed a new music and entertainment project called Zune which promises to deliver a family of hardware and software products expected to compete with Apple's market leading ecosystem consisting of the iTunes / iPod. The Zune brand is being billed as a "music and entertainment" project aimed at connecting with others to discover new music and entertainment

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An open source DRM (digital rights management) software project started in 2002 that supports embedded Linux has apparently achieved its second major release. OpenIPMP v2 adds support for additional open DRM standards, along with structural and development improvements aimed at making the software easier to port, build, and integrate.The OpenIPMP project aims to provide open standards-based DRM

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According to a recent report on p2pnet.net, John Edwards, one of the democratic presidential candidates in 2004 is apparently using BitTorrent to efficiently distribute and share some of his campaign video content. He's likely to run for President again, so if you want a hip president that understands and supports powerful and disruptive technologies like BitTorrent - vote for Edwards in 2008!

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via press release - London-based RawFlow, a leading provider of live peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming technology, have started working with NexusLive, an internet broadcast specialist. RawFlow will support NexusLive in a major webcast happening on the 19th of July to promote the emerging Edinburgh act Amplifico. The event is the world’s first ever live web broadcast album fundraiser.The band has been

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Freelance Interactive Designers/Programmers Wanted:- Entry level and experienced freelance positions- Required skills: Flash, Adobe CS2, Microsoft PowerPoint- Bonus skills: After Effects, ActionScript, Website (design and programming)- Projects could be as short as 1 week, as long as 6 monthsIf interested, contact John Lux at i.d.e.a.s. john.lux@integrityarts.com with resume, Adobe PDF portfolios

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[Notes from the 2006 Digital Media Conference] Paul Towler: Mobile is an incredibly flexible distribution mechanism, but one of the key challenges that all the MVNOs have is that they don’t own their own infrastructure, so they’re forced to live at the whim of the mother network. To that degree on the data side, they’re not in full control. The key attributes of a successful MVNO? (Virgin Mobile

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[Notes from the 2006 Digital Media Conference]The market has enjoyed 3 plus years of quarter over quarter growth in online advertising, which is big and it's getting even bigger... and becoming a huge part of our business at AOL. Keeping up with the demand is a challenge. The 4 big players (Google, Yahoo, AOL and MSN) control 50% of the advertising dollars. Each of these players enjoy over a 100M

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[Notes from the 2006 Digital Media Conference]Larry Gerbrandt: The digital genie has been let out of the lamp. Case in point: Google has recently surpassed 44 million streams a day…From a macro-perspective, we’re looking at 110 million households here in the U.S…User-generated content is clearly the hottest ticket of the day, but just how big of a game changer is it? The bottom line of this panel

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[Notes from the 2006 Digital Media Conference]Ok, I missed the first part of this panel saying “HI” to a few people on the break, but here’s what I heard during the second half…In general, the consumer now has complete control over their television viewing habits and the advertisers need to respect that. The 1980-2000 generation is not really watching tv screens and is much more interested in

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(Notes from the DMC 2006)Discovery Networks International, (DNI) programs content for 704 million subscribers outside of the U.S. and it operates the largest international footprint in the industry. (i.e., consists of 17 brands, multiple continents, 100 unique feeds, 35 languages, 1000 employees in 24 offices throughout the world.) DNI is committed to ambitious growth in the next 5 years,

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This year's Digital Media Conference (DMC2006) was produced by Digital Media Wire and held at the Ritz Carlton in Tyson's Corner, Virginia. Below, are some notes from last Friday's event called Music Matters, which as you can see, had the industry's real heavyweights weighing in on the issues...If you're interested in reading more live coverage from the event, just follow the link above and look

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Last Thursday on June 22nd, the Distributed Computing Industry Association held its inaugural P2P Media Summit - which consisted of 7 panels and 5 keynotes by some very distinguished guests. The DCIA is a voluntary organization representing all sectors of the distributed computing industry (including content providers, software developers and distributors, and service-and-support companies) and

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Yesterday via press release, Melodeo, announced PachyDRM, an open source digital rights management (DRM) initiative designed to accelerate a broad and secure market for "any media, on any network, on any device."PachyDRM includes the release of the Melodeo DRM source code and specification, now openly available at PachyDRM.org. Commercially deployed by Melodeo since 2004, PachyDRM has been

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Here's a healthy computing tip: If you happen to be using a computer without virus protection software (or your subscription has expired) you can go to http://www.pandasoftware.com/ and find the link for their "Active Scan" - run that on your computer and it will search for viruses for free. Your computer will NOT be permanently protected, but it will find whatever you have on their now.

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Just when you thought there was no margin on digital music sales, Real Music Store has dropped the pricing on on old favorites and new releases:- Song downloads $.69- Whole albums $6.99

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Warner Brothers is doing a good job going after the long-tail and is helping to redefine television. The new Superman channel starts tomorrow and includes: - The A&E Special- 'Look, Up In The Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman'- 'The Adventures of Superman'- 'Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman'- Max Fleischer Superman Cartoons.

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Here's a really quick way to post to your blog by using a handy dandy Google add-in called "BlogThis!." Whenever you hit a webpage that is news worthy, just hit the Blogger icon in the Google tool bar and a post is automatically added to your blog. It is definitely a time saver :)BlogThis! will work with almost any browser and operating system including IE 5 or greater on both the PC and Mac,

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ON PIRACY: On Piracy, Radio & Walmarts is a new documentary film by 20 year old University of Ottawa student Julien McArdle. The film is nearly 2 hours long and discusses music and movie piracy. Other topics include DRM, TPM's, the DMCA, why people pirate, what everyone thinks of it, etc. Deviating from the standard media regurgitation of this controversial topic, several interviews were

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DeVry University in Central Florida, Orlando campus, seeks a full time instructor of Game and Simulation Programming. DeVry University’s Game and Simulation Programming curriculum prepares graduates to join the game and simulation software industry in a variety of software development roles across the programming life cycle, including programmer, software engineer and project coordinator.

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The number of U.S. adults who go online at home, in the office, at school or elsewhere has grown 5% in the past year to an estimated 172 million, or 77% of all adults, according to the latest Harris Poll. The percentage of adults online has risen from 66% in 2002, 57% in 2000 and 9% in 1995, when Harris began tracking Internet use. The proportion of adults who have Internet access at home has

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The number of Internet users watching video online grew an impressive 18 percent between October 2005 and March 2006. That's according to comScore's first ever analysis of U.S. Web users' online video viewing habits, drawn from its new Video Metrix service.In March, U.S. Internet users initiated a total of 3.7 billion video content streams; and they watched an average 100 minutes of video content

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Software piracy resulted in a loss of $34 billion worldwide in 2005, a $1.6 billion increase over 2004, according to a study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA). The study, conducted by information-technology research firm IDC, found that roughly one out of every three copies of personal computing software installed in 2005 was pirated. While the rate of piracy has fluctuated

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U.S. spending on video games for personal computers hit $1.4 billion in 2005, according to an estimate released yesterday by market research firm NPD Group. Online subscriptions to PC games and gaming Web sites accounted for about $344 million of those annual sales. Major U.S. game publishers such as EA and Activision expect downloads to grow into a substantial business, although that part of

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Here's a LINK to some music panel photos from last week's Florida Music Festival. The 5 year old three day event continues to draw growing numbers of people from all over the world to discuss, perform and share new music. Highlights included Music Orchard's Richard Gottehrer's keynote as well as Transcontinental's Lou Pearlman's comments regarding bold new online music copy protection strategies

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The Verve Music Group has just announced an exclusive 3 month program with Rhapsody, the online music service from RealNetworks, to make a number of its classic, out-of-print recordings available to consumers as digital releases. For a short time, Rhapsody will be the only source for several Jazz favorites online.The Verve Music Group is thrilled to have Rhapsody embrace the delivery of

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Today, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit in New York federal court claiming that XM Satellite Radio's $399 "Inno" Pioneer handheld receiver – which can store up to 50 hours of downloaded music – violates federal copyright laws by allowing users to save and label songs that are saved. In other words, the RIAA is suing XM over the satellite company’s refusal to

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Paid online downloads are possibly losing some momentum this quarter, following explosive fourth and first quarter performances. According to the latest numbers from Pali Research, overall, weekly paid download purchases from outlets like the iTunes Music Store are double levels from last year, though purchases have been sagging in the second quarter. Citing Nielsen Soundscan data, research

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The Future of Music Coalition (FMC) has just announced dates for the 6th Annual Future of Music Policy Summit. Top names in music, technology, law, academia and policy will convene in Montreal, Canada from October 5-7, 2006 to discuss crucial issues facing musicians and the music industry. Presented in partnership with McGill University's Schulich School of Music and Pop Montreal, the Policy

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Last month, Creative Commons and the Berkman Center Clinical Program in Cyberlaw released the Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules for the Revolution. The Guide provides a comprehensive summary of the complex body of copyright, trademark and publicity rights issues that face podcasters, as well as a helpful list of resources for podcasters, ranging from technical overviews to useful software to ways to

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The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School is home to approximately thirty fellows, all of whom focus their time and energy on issues concerning the Internet, including Internet governance, privacy concerns, intellectual property rights, competition policy and antitrust issues, electronic commerce, the role of new media and journalism proper, and digital media, among many

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Here's a short 3 minute VIDEO produced by Public Knowledge which clearly explains the concept of "net neutrality". The topic has been somewhat confusing in the media as of late, but watching this excerpt reminds us of how simple but important this isssue really is. (Share it with your friends and co-workers!)

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The 5th Annual Florida Music Festival is coming to downtown Orlando soon this May 18th-20th.. Similar in scope to Austin's SXSW but without the chaos, FMF2006 promises 3 full days of incredible music being showcased by more than 250 bands performing in over 15 Venues = 20,000 Music Fans! Attend digital media panels by industry experts, rooftop VIP industry parties with more than 300 labels as

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Dear Friends of DMAF,Thank you once again to those of you who ventured out to support the first DMAF Happy Hour Social at the Monkey Bar last Wednesday evening and contributing to its overall success! (Click HERE for a photo slideshow.) I think it’s safe to say that a good time was had by all and that the venue was a hit. As part of our mission to provide a focus and forum for digital media

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The Digital Media Alliance Florida (DMAF) is pleased to announce the creation of our new blog which is intended to quickly share pertinent information with the world about the digital media events happening in our sunshine state. Please feel free to email us your specific company announcements and newsworthy items and we'll do our best to include them.

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