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o Roxio Hires Napster Founder Shawn Fanning, Will Re-Launch Service In '03
o LA Times: Rep. Berman May Toss Controversial P2P Hacking Bill
o Cell Phone Maker NTT DoCoMo First to Offer Macromedia's Flash On Handsets
o Game Boy Advance Chipmaker Matrix Gets $15 Million From Nintendo
o WSJ: EMI May Buy Warner Music Stake From AOL Time Warner
> DMW Digital Music Forum | March 3 | NYC
> DMW Publications: January Law and Policy Report
o Briefly Noted: On2 Technologies - ABC News - Top Cat Player, Ignition
Entertainment - Game Boy Advance titles, Sony Online Entertainment -
"EverQuest: The Legacy of Ykesha," TKO Software - Mforma Group, Digeo -
DreamWorks
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o Roxio Hires Napster Founder Shawn Fanning, Will Re-Launch Service In '03
Santa Clara, Calif. -- Roxio, the maker of CD and DVD burning software
that purchased Napster's assets for $5 million at a bankruptcy auction
last November, confirmed on Monday that Napster founder Sean Fanning will
be brought on with the company, which plans to launch a licensed,
fully-legal version of Napster by the end of the year. Initially, the
service will not be based around a peer-to-peer network, the protocol on
which the original Napster worked that allowed free-range copying of music
files from anyone logged onto the network. "We're looking to put a legal
service up by year end," Roxio spokeswoman Kathryn Kelly told CNET
News.com. "Our CEO, Chris Gorog, is in talks with all the major labels
now." "We won't launch until we've got agreements with all the labels to
include a significant proportion of their catalogues," a source at the
company told U.K. news site The Guardian. "And we won't just be a
subscription service, which asks users to make a commitment of at least
$15 a month, but will also sell music on a track by track basis."
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-985748.html?tag=fd_top
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,900541,00.html
http://www.roxio.com
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o LA Times: Rep. Berman May Toss Controversial P2P Hacking Bill
Los Angeles -- The Los Angeles Times reported on Monday that Rep. Howard
Berman (D-Calif.) may not re-introduce his controversial bill that would
provide legal safe harbor for Hollywood record labels and movie studios
wishing to use "technological countermeasures" to disrupt file-sharing
systems. Ironically, opposition coming from Hollywood -- which has
indicated it doesn't like provisions in the bill that would provide
recourse against studios and labels that go "too far" in their hacking
efforts -- may be what eventually ends up killing the legislation. "It
still may be worth doing," Berman said of the proposal at last week's
Digital Rights Summit in Santa Clara, Calif., "but realistically, a bill
like this isn't going to zip through Congress."
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-berman21feb21,1,4879496.
story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
http://www.house.gov/berman/p2p_faq.html
http://www.house.gov/berman/p2p.pdf
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o Cell Phone Maker NTT DoCoMo First to Offer Macromedia's Flash On Handsets
Tokyo -- Japanese cell phone giant NTT DoCoMo announced on Monday that it
will become the first cell phone maker to integrate Web publishing
software firm Macromedia's pervasive Flash animation software into its
phones. The technology will be embedded into new i-mode handsets, starting
with the 505i series, which is scheduled for release later this year. The
integration will provide i-mode users with access to a much broader range
of rich content and applications, as Flash is now estimated to be present
on 98 percent of all Internet-enabled computers.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030224/sfm049_1.html
http://www.nttdocomo.com
http://www.macromedia.com
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o Game Boy Advance Chipmaker Matrix Gets $15 Million From Nintendo
Santa Clara, Calif. -- Matrix Semiconductor, provider of the low-cost,
high-density 3-D integrated circuits used in Nintendo's Game Boy Advance
handhelds, announced on Monday that it has received a $15 million
investment from Nintendo. "We recognize Nintendo's dominant position in
electronic entertainment and feel very fortunate to have them as an
investor in Matrix," said Matrix VP of marketing Dan Steere. "Matrix's
cost and density advantages over existing technologies support the memory
requirements of our portable video game machine, Game Boy Advance," said
Nintendo's Yasuhiro Minagawa.
http://www.matrixsemi.com/files/10461076370.pdf
http://www.nintendo.com
http://www.gameboyadvance.com
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o WSJ: EMI May Buy Warner Music Stake From AOL Time Warner
London -- Media giant AOL Time Warner may sell its majority stake in its
Warner Music business to U.K.-based music company EMI Group in a deal
likely to be valued at $3-$4 billion, according to a report in Monday's
Wall Street Journal. The music industry is experiencing one of the worst
downturns in decades. A previous attempt by the two companies to merge
three years ago was blocked by European regulators, but given the current
state of the music industry, regulators may be more accepting of a merger
now, the paper said.
http://shorterlink.com/?GM3WHM
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A full-day forum focusing on business & legal issues impacting the music
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Featuring: An Interview & Jam Session with the Legendary Les Paul
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
Lyor Cohen | Chairman & CEO, The Island Def Jam Music Group
Chris Gorog | CEO, Roxio "Why We Purchased Napster"
Steve Rennie | REN Management (Artist Manager for Platinum-selling
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And panelists from: Sony Music, MTV/VH1, Roxio, Listen.com, FullAudio,
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Briefly Noted:
(New York) On2 Technologies, a provider of video compression and streaming
technology, announced that ABC News is purchasing its laptop PC
news-gathering system for its correspondents covering the Iraq conflict.
The technology allows completed packages to be sent back home over the
Internet or a satellite phone. Separately, New York-based On2 said that
adult entertainment provider Top Cat Player will use its technology to
deliver encrypted video-on-demand content to Internet users.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030221/laf024_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030224/nym010_1.html
http://www.topcatplayer.com
http://www.on2.com
(London) Ignition Entertainment, a unit of IVP Technology Corp. that
develops video games, announced on Monday it has secured distribution
agreements for nine of its Nintendo Game Boy Advance titles in the U.K.,
Europe and North America. London-based Ignition said it signed agreements
with COKeM International in North America, Prism Leisure in the U.K.,
Virgin Play in Spain, SG Diffusion in France and Games World BV in the
Benelux. In addition, Ignition's titles will also be sold through U.K.
retail store chains Sainsbury's and Game. The company will market its
titles for $23.80 plus applicable VAT.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030224/nym053_1.html
http://www.ignitionent.com
(San Diego) Sony Online Entertainment announced on Monday the release of
"EverQuest: The Legacy of Ykesha," an add-on to its popular massively
multiplayer online roleplaying game. The extension may be downloaded for
$21.99 from directly within the game, and adds new adventure zones,
quests, spells, items, a new playable character race and more.
http://www.legacyofykesha.com
(Santa Cruz, Calif.) TKO Software, a publisher of wireless video games,
announced on Monday a partnership with wireless games firm Mforma Group,
to develop and distribute J2ME and BREW titles to mobile carriers in the
U.S., Canada, and Europe. Initial titles will include Santa Cruz,
Calif.-based TKO's "Knuckle Up!" and "TurboTrax Racer."
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/230555240&ticker=
http://www.mforma.com
http://www.tko-software.com
(Kirkland, Wash.) Digeo, a provider of digital media center devices that
offer interactive TV capabilities, said on Monday that Hollywood film
studio DreamWorks will promote 10 upcoming releases on the Digeo Basic iTV
service, following successful trials last year. San Diego-based Digeo's
iTV service is currently available to more than 650,000 Charter Digital
Cable customers across the country under the brand name Charter
i-Channels.
http://www.digeo.com
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