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Academy Expels Member Over "Screener" Movies Leaked Onto Internet
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RealNetworks, Major League Baseball End Streaming Partnership
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Vivendi Universal Sales for Fourth Quarter Fall by 50%
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Microsoft to Launch Xbox Live in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore
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Yahoo, Clear Channel, Friendster Team to Promote Youth Voter
Registration
o Nokia VP Invests $5 Million in
Mobile Content Developer Landmat
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Briefly Noted: Napster -
University of Rochester, Sirius Satellite Radio - NFL, TiVo -
Nielsen Media Research, OpenTV - Matsushita, Nintendo - DigiPen
Institute of Technology, Sumea - Activision, "Tecmo Bowl" - Bo
Jackson
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--Director of Sales - Saddle Brook, NJ
--Senior Account Supervisor - Public Relations - Washington, DC
--Sales Executive
--Senior Media Manager
--Premier Consulting for B2Bi, SCM and eCommerce
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--Survey Aims to Provide Insight into New Media and Sport
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o Academy Expels Member Over
"Screener" Movies Leaked Onto Internet
Los Angeles -- The board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences, the group whose members vote on the Academy Awards,
has voted to expel one of its members for allowing a "screener" copy
of an Oscar-hopeful movie to be leaked onto the Internet, the
Associated Press reported. Academy spokesman John Pavlik told AP the
group would not identify the expelled member, nor confirm if it was
in fact veteran actor Carmine Caridi ("The Godfather: Part II"),
whom investigators have identified as the source of a number of
leaks through screeners mailed to his home. Caridi, who has not been
charged in the incident, reportedly sent his screener movies to a
friend in Chicago who then posted them online and has since been
arrested and indicted on criminal copyright infringement charges.
Films that made it onto the Internet in the incident included
"Something's Gotta Give" and "The Last Samurai."
http://www.salon.com/ent/wire/2004/02/04/tapes/index.html
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o RealNetworks,
Major League Baseball End Streaming Partnership
Seattle -- RealNetworks will not renew a deal with Major League
Baseball (MLB) that gave the company the exclusive rights to stream
audio and video of baseball games over the Internet, CNET News.com
reported. The original three-year deal saw RealNetworks pay $20
million for the exclusive Web rights to baseball, but the company
said the new terms being offered by MLB were not to its liking. "It
was our intention to find a profitable way to work with them,"
RealNetworks spokesman Greg Chiemingo told News.com. "But we were
unable to do that with terms that worked for us."
http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5153671.html
http://www.realnetworks.com
http://www.mlb.com
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o Vivendi
Universal Sales for Fourth Quarter Fall by 50%
Paris -- French media conglomerate Vivendi Universal on Thursday
reported that sales dropped by 50% in the fourth quarter as a strong
performance in telecommunications was unable to offset a poor
showing in media and entertainment. Since offloading a number of
interests last year -- most notably utility unit Veolia
Environnement -- the company has seen sales plummet from $20.1
billion last year to just $9.1 billion. Universal Music's sales
dropped by 19% to $2.1 billion, while Universal Entertainment's
sales fell by 4% to $2.1 billion as well.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?T18035F47
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Microsoft to Launch Xbox Live in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore
Taipei -- Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will launch Xbox
Live, the online gaming service for its Xbox video game console, in
Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore in April. The company has sold
around 1.4 million Xbox consoles in the Asia-Pacific region, and
also recently launched Xbox Live in South Korea -- the world's
leader in broadband penetration. Xbox Asia general manager Alan
Bowman told Reuters that the company has signed up 6,500 subscribers
in Korea since launching on Oct. 30. "People can utilize their
broadband connection at home, which is really a huge advantage for
Asia, given that the penetration of broadband in homes throughout
Asia is leading the world," Bowman told Reuters.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?E1DF21F47
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o Yahoo, Clear Channel, Friendster
Team to Promote Youth Voter Registration
Los Angeles -- Web portal Yahoo, radio giant Clear Channel and
online social networking site Friendster on Thursday jointly
announced their support for Declare Yourself, a nonpartisan,
non-profit organization founded by producer Norman Lear whose goal
is to register young voters for the 2004 election. Yahoo will
promote the organization on its websites, as well as through an
18-city college campus tour, which will also be promoted on Clear
Channel radio stations. Clear Channel will also provide space for
Declare Yourself at festivals and concerts it promotes, offering
on-site voter registration. Friendster, with its network of five
million users, will host voter registration parties on the campus
tour, in addition to linking to DeclareYourself.com and inviting
presidential candidates to post their own personal profile on
Friendster.com.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040205/lath048_1.html
http://www.vote.yahoo.com
http://www.clearchannel.com
http://www.friendster.com
http://www.declareyourself.com
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o Nokia VP
Invests $5 Million in Mobile Content Developer Landmat
Menlo Park, Calif. -- Nokia Venture Partners, an investor in early
stage mobile technology companies, said on Wednesday that it has
made a $5 million investment in Landmat, an Icelandic developer of
mobile content and services with U.S. headquarters in D.C. The
company gave no indication how it will use the funds. Landmat has
launched branded content and community applications such as mobile
dating and mobile blogging with more than 35 wireless operators
across Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, including AT&T,
Vodafone, Singtel, O2 and T-Mobile. The company's content is
provided by companies such as Time Out (city guides), Discovery
Channel, Match.com and Oz Clark's Wine Guide.
http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cqcb8ubKbmdm1yJa1nJ
http://www.landmat.com
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> DMW Events:
4th
Annual
Digital Music Forum
March 1, 2004 | New York City
www.digitalmusicforum.com
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Chris Amenita - SVP,
ASCAP
Amy
Bernstein - Senior Editor, Business 2.0
Derek Broes - EVP, Worldwide Operations,
Altnet
David Card - VP &
Research Director,
Jupiter Research
Scott Cohen - Co-Founder & President,
The Orchard Global Media
Ted
Cohen - SVP, Digital Development & Distribution,
EMI Music
Peter Csathy
- COO, MusicMatch
David Del
Beccaro - President & CEO,
Music Choice
Maureen Dorney - Partner,
Gray Cary
Roy Elkins - CEO &
Founder, Broadjam
Mark Frieser - CEO &
Founder, Consect
Brian Garrity - Senior
Editor, Billboard Magazine
Laura Goldberg - COO, Napster
Jim Griffin - CEO,
Cherry Lane Digital
Ellie Hirschhorn - GM &
EVP, MusicNet
Jeff Howe - Contributing
Editor, Wired Magazine
Scott
Kauffman
- President & CEO, MusicNow (formerly
FullAudio)
John Kilcullen -
President & Publisher, Billboard
Magazine
David Kusek - VP, Berklee
Media, Berklee College of Music
Steven Marks - SVP, Legal and Business
Affairs, RIAA
Tim Nilson - VP, Mobile
Technology, Sony Music
Jonathan Potter -
Executive Director, Digital Media
Association
Ty
Roberts - CTO, Gracenote
Sean Ryan - VP, Music
Services, Real Networks
Ned Sherman - CEO &
Founder, Digital Media Wire
Howie Singer - Chief
Technology Officer, Warner Music
Group
Steve Schnur
- Worldwide Executive of Music & Audio,
Electronic Arts
Perry
Solomon - Founder & VP, Strategy, Peppercoin
Bob Struble - President &
CEO, Ibiquity Digital
Nikke Slight - SVP, New
Media, Atlantic Records
Don Teague - VP, Sales & Marketing,
PaymentOne
Nada Usina -
GM,
Entertainment & Media Business,
Nokia America
Jim Van Huysse -
Executive Director & GM, The AOL
Radio@ Network
Jon Vlassopulos - Sr. Dir., Bus. Dev.,
AT&T Wireless Mobile Multimedia
more to come......
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
This year's forum focuses on the following questions:
- Is there a viable business model for selling music online?
- Can licensed services compete with free downloads from
file-sharing networks?
- Who will be the winners and the losers in the world of online
music sales?
- What is the status of pending lawsuits and legislation
concerning digital copyrights? Can the music industry profit
from legitimate uses of P2P?
- How are consumers reacting to new formats for music delivery?
- Will new formats generate the kind of success that the industry
experienced with CDs during the '80s and '90s?
- What are the challenges and opportunities for music industry
executives seeking to maximize the potential of the mobile
market?
- What does the future hold for satellite and Internet radio?
For complete agenda and event details, please go to:
www.digitalmusicforum.com
REGISTRATION
Pre-Registration: $295 (until February 20)
Registration: $395 (after February 20)
Online :
http://kb.digitalmediawire.com/register.php?eventid=1056
Phone: 323-464-0793
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o Briefly Noted: (Santa Clara,
Calif.) Roxio, parent company of the re-launched Napster service,
announced on Thursday that during its fiscal third quarter the
online music division had revenues of $3.6 million and a pretax loss
of $15.1 million, and expects fourth quarter revenue to rise to
about $5 million. Additionally, the company announced that Napster
has reached a licensing agreement with the University of Rochester
in New York, to offer students free access to its Premium service.
The school will cover all associated fees through the 2005 spring
semester. Napster has a similar agreement in place with Penn State
University, although students there pay for the service through
added tuition fees.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040204/sfw101_1.html
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-roxio5feb05.story
http://www.roxio.com
http://www.napster.com
(New York) Sirius Satellite Radio, a provider of
satellite-delivered digital radio programming, announced that it has
finalized its previously-announced agreement with the NFL to
broadcast football games on its service. The seven-year deal will
make New York-based Sirius the official satellite radio partner for
the NFL. Sirius will carry all 2004 NFL regular season games, as
well as some playoff games, adding the conference championships and
Super Bowl beginning in 2005.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040204/nyw139_1.html
http://www.siriusradio.com
(San Jose, Calif.) TiVo, a maker of digital video recorders that
let viewers pause and record live television, announced on Thursday
that it has partnered with TV ratings provider Nielsen Media
Research to create a service that will provider digital video
recorder usage data to the television industry. The companies will
collect data on television viewing patterns and trends by creating
an opt-in panel made up of TiVo standalone subscribers.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040204/sfw022_1.html
http://www.nielsenmedia.com
http://www.tivo.com
(San Francisco) OpenTV, a developer of interactive television
services, said on Wednesday that Matsushita Electric Industrial --
best known for its Panasonic brand -- has incorporated a
jointly-developed integrated browser in all of its Panasonic Viera
digital televisions and Panasonic digital set-top boxes now being
distributed in Japan.
http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cqcb8ubKbmdm1yJeYmJq
http://www.opentv.com
(Redmond, Wash.) Nintendo of America announced on Thursday that
it will sponsor a five-year professorship program at the DigiPen
Institute of Technology, which set up its Redmond, Wash. campus in
cooperation with Nintendo. When the school launched in 1998, it was
the first to offer a bachelor's degree in video game programming.
"The industry is always looking for talented people who can take us
to the next level, and this professorship will help strengthen
DigiPen's dedication to its students and our industry," said
Jacqualee Story, executive vice president of business affairs for
Nintendo of America.
http://www.digipen.edu
(Helsinki) Mobile game developer Sumea said on Thursday that it
has licensed the rights from fellow developer Activision to create a
wireless version of the company's "Pitfall: The Lost Expedition."
The first episode of Helsinki-based Sumea's wireless version will be
released simultaneously with the PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube and
Game Boy Advance titles later this month.
http://www.activision.com
http://www.sumea.com
http://www.pitfallharry.com
(San Francisco) Online magazine Salon.com on Thursday published
an article on the unlikely fame that some professional athletes have
garnered from their digital representations in certain video games.
The article focuses on former NFL and MLB professional athlete Bo
Jackson, whose character in game developer Tecmo's massively popular
football title "Tecmo Bowl," was arguably the most talented video
game athlete of all time. "Tecmo Bo" was unnaturally quick and
resilient -- before such sports games sought a more exacting level
of accuracy when compared with the real game and athletes. "I can
guarantee that I can't go a week without someone mentioning
something about 'Tecmo Bowl,'" Jackson told Salon.com.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/02/05/sports_video/index1.html
http://www.tecmoinc.com
http://www.gamespot.com/nes/sports/tecmobowl
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> Senior Account Supervisor - Public Relations - Washington, DC
Edelman seeks a Supervisor with expertise in policy issues and a
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We are seeking a technology services sales executive. We are a
small, growing, profitable company expanding our Washington DC
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> Survey Aims to Provide Insight into New Media and Sport
e-Newsletter Sport and Technology is conducting a survey that will
provide a valuable insight into the key issues surrounding how new
media can be utilised to give a financial return to sports
properties and businesses. Sport and Technology is very keen to
obtain the views of key individuals in the sports industry on this
subject and therefore invites Digital Media Wire subscribers to
participate in the survey that can be completed online at
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The survey results will be made available to Digital Media Wire
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The survey deadline is Thursday, February 12, 2004 and Sport and
Technology would like to thank everyone in advance for their
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