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Google Should Deliver Its YouTube Data to Viacom in Paper Form
Erick Schonfeld submits: The recent court order directing Google GOOG to hand over data to Viacom VIA about every YouTube video ever watched strikes many people as an absurd overreach of the law into the privacy of anyone who has ever used YouTube (i.e., almost everyone on the Internet)....
Judge Protects YouTube?s Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves
Michael Arrington submits: The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released, the consequences could be far more serious than the 2006 AOL Search debacle....
Hollywood Producers Get Tough With SAG Actors
Julia Boorstin submits: Hollywood is looking at another intense third act; the tough guys are pulling out the big guns. The Screen Actors Guild is the last of the entertainment industry's guilds to renegotiate its contract, and let's just say, it's not looking like a fairytale ending. Monday night,...
Rhapsody launches DRM-free music download store
Subscription music service Rhapsody is launching an MP3 download store, offering DRM-free downloads for the first time. The service - jointly owned by RealNetworks and MTV Networks - will launch with a USD50m marketing campaign, reports Reuters. The launch comes as Rhapsody announces partnership agreements with Verizon, iLike, and...
Dailymotion sees no sale in short term
French video-sharing site Dailymotion is not looking to sell itself, the firm’s CEO told StrategyEye, dampening recent speculation of an imminent sale. Mark Zaleski says Dailymotion, the most visited video site in France and one of the most popular in Europe, is developing a business model that will enable...
Bollywood Coming of Age
J.P. Hannan submits: The Indian film industry, commonly referred to as “Bollywood”, has received much attention in past few weeks with reports of Steven Spielberg’s potential deal with India’s Reliance Entertainment for a substantial equity infusion allowing him and his Dreamworks partners to break away from their current ownership structure...
Why Media Stocks Are Looking So Ugly
Julia Boorstin submits: Media stocks have tanked. A chart of the media conglomerates' performance over the past 12 months is flat-out ugly. They're all in the red, and all but Disney DIS have underperformed the Dow, and it's still down about five percent over the past 12 months....
Bollywood and Hollywood Are Teaming Up for Growth
Julia Boorstin submits: The gap between Bollywood and Hollywood is becoming increasingly narrow. Earlier this week I blogged about how Steven Spielberg is in talks with Indian Media Giant Reliance ADA group to finance an independent studio. That's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to crossover...
Digital and Mobile Media Spending Set to Double Share by 2012
Research Recap submits: Digital and mobile distribution should more than double its share of global media and entertainment spending in the next five years, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers. Although digital and mobile distribution comprised only 5 percent of global entertainment and media (E&M) spending in 2007, these...
Spielberg and Co. Look to India for Next Move
Julia Boorstin submits: DreamWorks DWA chiefs Steven Spielberg and David Geffen are looking for their next move, and India may play a starring role. Their deal with Viacom's VIA Paramount Pictures expires at the end of this year, and Hollywood has been buzzing about conflict between the famous director...
Viacom: Should It Go Private?
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Why is Viacom VIA still a public company? Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield thinks Viacom Chairman Sumner Redstone ought to consider that question carefully. In a research piece this morning, Greenfield recalls that in July 2006 he wrote a report entitled “Dear Mr. Redstone:...
Warner Bros inks video syndication deals
The Warner Bros Television Group WBTVG will launch branded web channels on Dailymotion, Joost, Veoh, TiVo and Sling Media, in a series of deals aimed to boost its cross-platform presence.The partnership with Sling Media will see WBTVG's channels reaching smartphones and laptops worldwide through Sling's wireless transmitter. Warner's web...
Will Spielberg Ditch Paramount to Reinvent DreamWorks?
Julia Boorstin submits: Steven Spielberg can opt out of his contract with Paramount Pictures at the end of this year. The question of whether Spielberg stays or leaves is a hot topic in Hollywood, one which could have huge implications for Viacom VIA, Paramount's parent company's bottom line. Spielberg...
Viacom to offer satirical shows on Hulu
Viacom will syndicate its programmes on Hulu for the first time as part of a trial starting this week, reports Reuters. Full-length episodes of Comedy Central's satirical shows, 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and 'The Colbert Report', will be available for streaming on the video site, jointly owned...
Automotive Angst: Detroit?s Woes Impact TV Stocks
Steve Wonsiewicz submits: For investors in pure play television stocks, the comments coming out of Detroit in the wake of disappointing sales of new vehicles in May were not what you wanted to hear. While most industry observers expected sales to be down, the extent of the decline in large...
When News Turns Comedic, Comedy Turns to News
Ken Doctor submits: You've had the sensation. You DVR up last night's The Daily Show or Colbert Report, expecting some laughs and relaxation, and you get them. But you get more: You get news reporting, stealthy news reporting that pretends to be comedy, but is actual news. ...
Video Consumption: TV and Theaters Down, Online Up
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: I love seeing this: less and less people watching TV, more and more watching video online. by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan
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