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Big Champagne CEO Eric Garland: 

That means that this year or next year is going to be Hollywood’s year to really start to lose audience–not just at the fringes but in regular middle-American living rooms. They’ll lose them to the other box, to the smart box. continue reading...

Interesting times:

At stake is nothing less than the future of television shows and movies on digital platforms at a time when online viewing is exploding, but still remains a minuscule percentage of overall television viewing. continue reading...

TV’s troubles outlined on SAI and in the presentation below:

I think it is quite clear that TV is where newspapers were a decade ago.  The future won’t be any different.  I’ve touched on this in the past, but it’s nice to see other perspetives. continue reading...

I do wonder if Wolverine’s opening weekend will be helped or hurt by the piracy factor? 

I didn’t see any of the pirated material, but hearing about the brou-haha over the pirated stuff spiked my interest. I wasn’t planning on seeing the movies until I see this series we produced this past month: continue reading...

Just imagine if we stole a tech company’s IP and published a video about it, or wrote an article outlining the secret sauce. Ironically, that would at least be a “derivative work” and not violate copyright, since it would pass one of the tests of the fair use doctrine. Yet a tech company that builds a tool that facilitates and enables copyright violation, that’s innovation?

From the “thanks, but no thanks file”, today we bring you Scribd: continue reading...

YouTube vs. Hulu?  That is the question record labels are asking themselves as they look for options to tackle declining offline sales and piracy.

Actually, there is a third option, which is building their own Hulu-style site. Hulu is a NBC and News Corp.-backed joint venture. continue reading...

What’s worst than a good illegal product or service (such as Red Lasso)?

A bad illegal product or service (such as Mygazines.com). continue reading...

Is this math correct?  Who knows… but YouTube and Google’s legal team sure is busy these days:

Gestevision Telecinco SA, a Mediaset unit that owns Spain’s most-watched TV station, sued YouTube last month for copyright infringement and illegally posting its video content on the Web. continue reading...

The ongoing question surrounding YouTube and Google’s inability to maximize revenue opportunities on the site is, has been and will be: will marketers embrace the site, which has only 4% monetizable content, according to a recent WSJ article.

But judging by a couple of comments that my post on YouTube’s Nuclear Option on Monetizing YouTube got on Seeking Alpha, I wonder if that is even moot.  Judge for yourself: continue reading...