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o EU
Copyright Directive Passes; Late Amendment Could Protect
File-Sharing
o
RealNetworks Sues Major League Baseball Over Streaming Formats
o Judge
Rules RIAA Can't Consolidate "John Doe" Suits Against File-Swappers
o Kodak
Acquires 2 Digital Printing Firms; Sues Sony for Patent Infringement
o MCG Capital Acquires Media
Trade Publisher Kagan World Media
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Ubisoft's "Tom Clancy Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow," Activated
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Cable, Certicom - Regal Entertainment Group, Electronic Arts - "MVP
Baseball 2004," Digital Extremes - Groove Games - "Pariah," Bam
Entertainment - "Starsky & Hutch," ACON4 Worldwide Gaming Event, Got
Game Entertainment, Master P - double CD/full-length DVD movie
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o EU Copyright Directive Passes; Late
Amendment Could Protect File-Sharing Brussels -- The European
Parliament has voted to pass the EU Intellectual Property Rights
Enforcement Directive, an anti-piracy law covering media and other
goods that will apply to all countries in the European Union. The
directive originally would have included clauses that allowed
copyright holders to target individual file-swappers with
infringement claims, much like the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright
Act. However, a late amendment added to the law could restrict civil
lawsuits to large-scale commercial counterfeiters and pirates of CDs
and movies, protecting individuals who download music and other
media "in good faith" for their own personal use. Civil liberties
groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation argue that even
with the late amendment, the law as passed could still leave
individual file-swappers open to litigation from copyright holders.
Following final approval of the Enforcement Directive by EU
minister, member states will have 18 months to implement their own
versions of the laws.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A32C21AA7
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3545839.stm
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5171833.html
http://www.eff.org/news/breaking/archives/2004_03.php#001256
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o RealNetworks
Sues Major League Baseball Over Streaming Formats
Seattle -- RealNetworks announced on Tuesday that it has filed
suit against the new media division of Major League Baseball (MLB),
over a contract that provides for baseball broadcasts to be
delivered over the Internet in RealNetworks' media format. The
lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order to compel MLB.com to
stream games in RealNetworks' format, as laid out in a February 2004
contract with Major League Baseball Advanced Media. The two
companies have worked together since 2001, when MLB signed a
three-year, $20 million deal to use RealNetworks technology to power
delivery of all of its audio and video feeds of baseball games. The
two companies failed to renew that larger contract recently, and MLB
has since been seeking a new partner for delivering its games
online.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040309/sftu100_1.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1023_3-5171852.html
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Q5FC11AA7
http://www.realnetworks.com
http://www.mlb.com
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o Judge Rules
RIAA Can't Consolidate "John Doe" Suits Against File-Swappers
Philadelphia -- A federal judge on Friday put a kink in one of
the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) legal
campaigns against alleged file-swappers when he ruled the RIAA must
file separate "John Doe" lawsuits against 203 individual
file-swappers instead of grouping them all into a single suit. The
record industry was forced to begin filing "John Doe" lawsuits after
a federal judge ruled in December its previous expedited subpoena
process for revealing the names of alleged infringers from their
Internet service providers was illegal. On Friday, Judge Clarence
Newcomer of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania allowed a single
suit to be filed, against "John Doe" #1, for whom the RIAA provided
additional details. The RIAA must now file separate suits against
the remaining 202 John Doe defendants -- all of whom are Comcast
Internet subscribers -- and pay additional filing fees that the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) estimated to total $30,000.
http://eff.org/IP/P2P/20040305_eff_pr.php
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o Kodak
Acquires 2 Digital Printing Firms; Sues Sony for Patent Infringement
Rochester, N.Y. -- Photo giant Eastman Kodak stepped up its move
into the digital market yesterday when it acquired two digital
printing companies owned by the German firm Heidelberger
Druckmaschinen AG for a combined $150 million. The two companies,
NexPress Solutions and Heidelberg Digital, manufacture digital color
and black-and-white printers. Separately, Kodak announced it has
filed patent infringement claims against rival camera maker Sony,
alleging the company is infringing on 10 of its patents covering
digital photography technology. The suit seeks an injunction against
further sale of the allegedly infringing products and unspecified
monetary damages. "We have attempted to resolve the matter with Sony
for almost three years, and the discussion between us have not led
to a suitable licensing agreement," Kodak spokesman Gerard Meuchner
told Reuters. Sony said it had not yet seen the suit and had no
comment.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040308/75096_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/040309/tech_kodak_sony_2.html
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o MCG Capital
Acquires Media Trade Publisher Kagan World Media
Arlington, Va. -- MCG Capital Corporation announced on Tuesday that
it has acquired Kagan World Media, a media and entertainment
research firm based in Carmel, Calif. Financial details of the
transaction were not disclosed. MCG purchased the assets from
Primedia, which acquired the company from founder Paul Kagan in
2000. Kagan publishes newsletters and organizes conferences covering
the cable, broadcast, home video, motion picture, newspaper and
wireless industries. "We had a broad overlap in the industries that
we cover, and we share a similar approach to financial research,"
said MCG Capital CEO Bryan Mitchell. "Combining forces with Kagan
was a natural extension of our research arm and increases our
research capabilities by an order of magnitude." The company will
now be known as Kagan Research.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040309/dctu022_1.html
http://www.kagan.com
http://www.mcgcapital.com
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o Briefly Noted:
(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Wireless developer Sony Ericsson
Mobile Communications announced on Tuesday an in-game product
promotion with video game developer Ubisoft Entertainment that will
see two of its products appear in Ubisoft's "Tom Clancy's Splinter
Cell: Pandora Tomorrow." As part of the deal, Sony Ericsson's new
P900 smart phone and T637 camera phone will figure into the plot of
the video game. A separate deal between Sony Ericsson and mobile
game publisher Gameloft will enable a wireless version of the game
to be played on the camera phone as well.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040309/95549_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040309/95175_1.html
http://www.sonyericsson.com
http://www.gameloft.com
http://www.ubisoft.com
(Bellevue, Wash.) Activated Content announced on Tuesday that a
Danish digital music download service will use its audio
watermarking technology to mark downloaded music files with a
persistent identity to enable the enforcement of copyright laws. The
Phonofile Denmark service was created by a group of Danish rights
owners and will launch this month. It plans to eventually offer up
to 500,000 tracks from both Danish and international artists,
offering distribution via MP3 files that include watermarks, Windows
Media files with digital rights management, or both.
http://www.activatedcontent.com
http://www.phonofile.dk
(Los Angeles) Cable TV network Starz Encore Group said on Tuesday
that it will launch its latest HDTV channel, Encore HD, on March 22.
The channel will initially be available on Cablevision's Voom HDTV
service, and will be offered via PanAmSat's satellite network.
http://www.starzencore.com
(Plano, Texas) BIAP Systems, a provider of interactive TV software,
said on Tuesday that it has signed a multi-year license and
distribution agreement with Time Warner Cable. The cable TV operator
will deploy Texas-based BIAP's localization and smart aggregation
tool that automatically and continuously retrieves, updates and
delivers viewer-customized data such as sports scores and stock
portfolios.
http://www.biap.com
(Mississauga, Ontario) Cryptography developer Certicom said on
Tuesday that Regal Entertainment Group will deploy its security
technology to protect films delivered via satellite on Regal's
digital cinema system.
http://www.regalcinemedia.com
http://www.certicom.com
(Redwood City, Calif.) Game developer Electronic Arts on Tuesday
released its "MVP Baseball 2004" title for PlayStation 2, Xbox,
GameCube and the PC. Developed by the company's EA Canada studio,
the game for the first time lets players control all aspects of
Class AA and AAA farm teams in addition to the parent MLB clubs, and
features online play via the Network Adaptor for PlayStation 2.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040309/95333_1.html
http://www.mvpbaseball2004.com
(Toronto) Independent game developer Digital Extremes ("Unreal")
said on Tuesday that Toronto-based publisher Groove Games has signed
an agreement to publish its new title "Pariah" for Xbox and the PC.
The title has been in development for two years; additional details
will be released at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3)
in May.
http://www.digitalextremes.com
http://www.groovegames.com
http://www.pariahgame.com
(San Jose, Calif.) Video game developer Bam Entertainment announced
on Tuesday that it will serve as North American distributor for the
Empire Interactive-developed title for Nintendo GameCube and Game
Boy Advance based on Sony Pictures' "Starsky and Hutch" movie. The
game is slated for release later this month.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040309/sftu051_1.html
http://us.empireinteractive.com
http://www.bam4fun.com
(Fountain Valley, Calif.) Memory products maker Kingston Technology
said on Tuesday it will sponsor the ACON4 Worldwide Gaming Event, a
video game tournament spread across 19 countries and territories in
a total of 50 cities. Entrants will compete to advance to the finals
in June in Shanghai, China, where they will challenge one another's
skills in Blizzard Entertainment's "Warcraft III: The Frozen
Throne."
http://www.kingston.com
http://www.abitgamer.com
(Weston, Conn.) Game developer Got Game Entertainment said on
Tuesday that it shipped its "A Quiet Weekend in Capri" title for PC
to retailers this week.
http://www.gotgameentertainment.com
(New York) Koch Records hip-hop artist Master P announced on Tuesday
he will distribute a feature length, straight-to-DVD movie along
with his double CD album "Good Side/Bad Side," due in stores on
March 23. The film, billed as a "gritty dramedy," is executive
produced and co-directed by Master P and stars Master P and Lil
Romeo. Master P's first straight-to-video release, "I'm Bout It,"
which he produced, wrote, directed and starred in, sold nearly
500,000 copies in its first week of release in 1997.
http://www.kochentertainment.com
http://www.nolimitrecords.com
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