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Add this to the be-careful-what-you-wish-for file: After pleading for years for more and better data on cross-platform viewership the TV industry is about to get hit by waves of t... More

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday handed Google a major victory in its long-running legal fight with the Authors Guild over Google's massive book-scanning projec... More

The second of three articles. The Cinema Content Creation Cloud (C4) is an asset identification framework developed by the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at USC, along with... More

The unambiguous identification of digital assets has long challenged media and entertainment companies. And as new devices, platforms and business models create the need for new fo... More

For two decades now, Beaverton, Ore.-based Digimarc has been working toward one goal: be the barcode of everything. The digital watermarking technology provider enables the embed... More

Outspoken music and media blogger Bob Lefsetz will be joining the stage as a keynote speaker during THE Summit on September 24th from 1 – 6 p.m. at the Luxe Sunset Blvd. Hotel in... More

This week's landmark copyright ruling in the "Dancing Baby" video case was a set-back for the studios and record companies in their efforts to police the use of their works on YouT... More

The Federal Communications Commission this week kicked off a proceeding that could have far-reaching implications for how pay-TV and over-the-top content is managed, protected and... More

By Chris Tribbey Last year the popular rock band Foo Fighters did something pretty unique. Visiting eight American cities (Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, N... More

NEW YORK — HITS, the media & entertainment IT association, will host its Second Annual HITS Broadcast IT Summit, at the NAB/CCW Convention at Jacob Javits Convention Center o... More

By Paul Sweeting Apple will hold its fall media event on September 9th, where it is expected to unveil an array of new hardware, including a new iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. One item th... More

By Paul Sweeting That $45 billion Comcast did not get to spend on Time Warner Cable seems to be burning a hole in its pocket. On Monday, Comcast announced it would invest $200 mi... More

To paraphrase The Bard, let us not to the marriage of content and contract admit impediment. That sentiment is animating growing interest in workflows that can integrate media ass... More

Last week's meltdown among media stocks left many Wall Street professionals scratching their heads. Objectively speaking, the earnings news that triggered the sell-off, first from... More

NEW YORK -- Creating usable metadata from live sports broadcasts is a labor intensive operation. Whether done in real time or after the fact the process still involves teams of hum... More

By Paul Sweeting NEW YORK—As with most parts of the media and entertainment business, social media has become an important source of incremental revenue for sports leagues and t... More

By Paul Sweeting The practice of restricting access to digital services outside their home markets in order to protect exclusive territorial content licenses came under fire this... More

By Chris Tribbey The sports fans’ second screen experience — and how their data can be best utilized — will be tackled July 28 in New York when the 2nd Screen Society (S3) a... More

Hulu is very popular on Madison Ave. Media buyers looking to reach viewers that are drifting away from traditional television in favor or digital platforms find in Hulu a safe, fam... More

The National Music Publishers Association agreed this week to sell the Harry Fox Agency, the music industry's dominant clearing house for mechanical rights, to Seasac, the No. 3 pe... More