Of Vice and Venn: Why Windowing Pits Convenience Against Compliance
If you want to understand why excessive contenting “windowing” forces consumers to choose between convenience and copyright compliance, Farhad Manjoo’s New York Times piece last week, “Why Movie...
View ArticleApple’s Cable Set-Top Box and Interoperability
Nearly six months before this week’s reveal of iPhone 6 and the Apple Watch, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was in talks with Comcast Corp. about “teaming up for a streaming-television...
View ArticleThoughts on Taylor Swift, Spotify, and Streaming
In discussions of Taylor Swift pulling her music from Spotify because the service wouldn’t make the music available solely to paying subscribers, which pays higher royalty rates, and Aloe Blacc’s Wired...
View ArticleAre Set-Top Boxes Finally Ready For Disruption? (It’s the User Interface,...
One of the most perplexing issues in communications policy, and perhaps the longest-running — already with a convoluted 20-year history — is that of the cable television set-top box (STB). Two decades...
View ArticleThe Copyright Royalty Board: An Explainer
Today the new Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) ruling was released, announcing royalty rates that will impact music streaming services and the broader music ecosystem. Given how complicated all of this...
View ArticleThe Rise of Streaming in 2017
Emerging artists continue to use the Internet and music streaming services to launch and sustain their careers. According to a recent article in the Washington Post, in November 2014, country singer...
View ArticleOf Vice and Venn: Why Windowing Pits Convenience Against Compliance
If you want to understand why excessive contenting “windowing” forces consumers to choose between convenience and copyright compliance, Farhad Manjoo’s New York Times piece last week, “Why Movie...
View ArticleThoughts on Taylor Swift, Spotify, and Streaming
In discussions of Taylor Swift pulling her music from Spotify because the service wouldn’t make the music available solely to paying subscribers, which pays higher royalty rates, and Aloe Blacc’s Wired...
View ArticleThe Copyright Royalty Board: An Explainer
Today the new Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) ruling was released, announcing royalty rates that will impact music streaming services and the broader music ecosystem. Given how complicated all of this...
View ArticleThe Rise of Streaming in 2017
Emerging artists continue to use the Internet and music streaming services to launch and sustain their careers. According to a recent article in the Washington Post, in November 2014, country singer...
View ArticleDutch Study Shows Importance of Business Innovation to Defeating Infringement
Two Dutch organizations, the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law and the research firm Ecorys, just released a Global Online Piracy Study concluding that increasing the availability...
View ArticleWhen You Play the Game of Competition, You Either Adapt or Die
Game of Thrones is arguably the world’s most popular show. In 2014, it surpassed The Sopranos as the most popular HBO series; an average of more than 23 million Americans watched each episode of Season...
View ArticleCompetition In Streaming Services Is Heating Up
Streaming has become the largest form of digital media consumption. Deloitte’s 2019 edition of its Digital Media Trends survey observed that a higher percentage of households currently subscribe to a...
View ArticleWill Our Temporary New Normal Permanently Change Content Distribution?
As DisCo has been covering, the global public health crisis is impacting all aspects of daily life, shifting how people communicate, learn, and shop. It is also impacting the market for entertainment....
View ArticleEntertainment Evolution: What’s Happening to Content Due to COVID-19 (Part 2)
Continuing the theme of the previous post in this series, COVID-19 has also influenced the film, television, and video game industries. Movie releases are being pushed back or released digitally at the...
View ArticleDutch Study Shows Importance of Business Innovation to Defeating Infringement
Two Dutch organizations, the University of Amsterdam’s Institute for Information Law and the research firm Ecorys, just released a Global Online Piracy Study concluding that increasing the availability...
View ArticleWhen You Play the Game of Competition, You Either Adapt or Die
Game of Thrones is arguably the world’s most popular show. In 2014, it surpassed The Sopranos as the most popular HBO series; an average of more than 23 million Americans watched each episode of Season...
View ArticleCompetition In Streaming Services Is Heating Up
Streaming has become the largest form of digital media consumption. Deloitte’s 2019 edition of its Digital Media Trends survey observed that a higher percentage of households currently subscribe to a...
View ArticleWill Our Temporary New Normal Permanently Change Content Distribution?
As DisCo has been covering, the global public health crisis is impacting all aspects of daily life, shifting how people communicate, learn, and shop. It is also impacting the market for entertainment....
View ArticleA Mixed Bag of Copyright Provisions in Omnibus Spending Bill
The omnibus spending bill just passed by Congress contains two provisions relating to copyright law—one largely unobjectionable, the other highly problematic. Felony Streaming The unobjectionable...
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