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For Carin Forman, director of digital photo services for HBO, this was the year the media company turned a corner, when it comes to rights management and the review and approval pr... More

NEW YORK -- Contracts are a necessary part of licensing content and data, but contract language that is overly broad can be a “recipe for disaster,” according to Chey Blake, fo... More

NEW YORK -- Creating rights metadata standards are important for industries that use such information, but not all standards have been successful to date because some of them haven... More

NEW YORK — Collecting metadata is essential for companies who handle content, everything from movies and TV shows to baseball games, but there are still many challenges when it c... More

NEW YORK — The Rights & Metadata Madness conference kicked off July 20 with a detailed explanation by Greg Cram, associate director of copyright and information Policy for th... More

LOS ANGELES — For nearly 15 years, Fandango was a name purely synonymous with movie ticketing. And while it’s true that they’re still the go-to for people wanting movie ticke... More

Nintendo and game developer Niantic aren’t the only companies benefiting from the craze around the augmented reality (AR) mobile game “Pokemon Go.” GameStop disclosed July 18... More

By Nicole Greiner, Research Analyst, VAST Media Virtual reality is gaining momentum. While some years ago, the technology still seemed futuristic and inaccessible to consumers, ... More

The benefits of metadata when it comes to protecting content against piracy are well known by this point. But often lost in the conversation is something more basic: who owns distr... More

A group of entertainment industry experts will be on hand in a webinar July 26 to tackle one of the industry’s biggest challenges today: breaking down the walls between platforms... More

GameStop isn’t the only U.S. retail chain jumping on the virtual reality (VR) bandwagon early. Best Buy and Microsoft Store locations are among other retailers who are selling th... More

By Greg Boyer, U.S. Entertainment & Media Consulting Leader, PwC Terms like “all you can eat” and “binging” were once relegated to the analog domains of inexpensive food... More

The New York Public Library (NYPL) system features more than 51 million physical items across more than 90 locations. And digitizing even a portion of that means a metadata and rig... More

Data security breaches have become a significant issue for companies large and small, and the problem stands to only grow as more devices and applications are being used inside and... More

At the inaugural “Rights & Metadata Madness: Where Legal Meets the Digital Supply Chain” event July 20 in New York City, the current state of media and entertainment content ri... More

By Nimish Gupta, Director Product Management, Riversand Technologies Digital is the main reason just over half the companies on the Fortune 500 have disappeared since the year 2... More

It’s no secret that the adult entertainment industry has historically experimented with and adapted new video formats and interactive technologies early on, even helping to drive... More

NEW YORK — High-resolution audio offers significant opportunities for the music industry and CE manufacturers, but if it’s going to really take off, there’s going to have to ... More

By Brian Dawson, Business Manager, Affinity Do you know how many projects are running across your IT organization? Is your IT organization chasing fires, working extreme hours, ... More

The spring edition of the “M&E Journal: Navigating the Next New” magazine — featuring insights from dozens of media and entertainment industry executives — is now available... More