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o Radio Station Website Developer LMiV to Shut Down
o Judge Rules Against BT Hyperlink Patent
o No New Napster Bidders Emerge; Bertelsmann In Line to Take Over
o Digital Cinema Developer World Theatre Gets Patent, Seeks Funding

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o Radio Station Website Developer LMiV to Shut Down

Indianapolis -- Local Media Internet Venture (LMiV), a company created two
years ago by a group of large radio station owners to create websites for
their stations, announced that it will shut down at the end of September.
The company -- which launched with $37 million from its backers -- pointed
to its inability to attract additional radio stations to the network, the
newly set royalty rates for streaming and the advertising climate as
reasons for its closure. "Unfortunately, the fundamental change in the
economic viability of streaming and the recession in the broadcast
advertising market have conspired to cause many radio stations to reduce
the resources they are allocating to their interactive efforts," said LMiV
president and CEO Jack Swarbrick. "As we continued to encounter
prospective customers who loved our product but couldn't find the funds in
the 2003 budget to become an affiliate, we knew that it was time to shut
down LmiV." LmiV was a joint venture between radio station owners
Bonneville, Corus, Emmis, Entercom and Jefferson-Pilot Communications. The
company said responsibility for maintaining station websites will revert
back to individual stations.
http://www.lmiv.com
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o Judge Rules Against BT Hyperlink Patent

London -- British Telecom (BT) has lost a patent infringement lawsuit it
filed against Internet access provider Prodigy Communications, in which BT
claimed that Prodigy's use of "hyperlinks" -- common to the functionality
of the entire Internet -- was infringement and warranted licensing the
technology from BT. ZDNet U.K. reported that U.S. District Judge Colleen
McMahon awarded Prodigy its motion for summary judgment to have the case
dismissed, saying that no jury could find that Prodigy infringes the
patent. BT, which was issued the U.S. patent in 1989, planned to charge
Internet service providers that host websites containing hyperlinks --
essentially all of them -- a license fee for using the technology.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2121257,00.html
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o No New Napster Bidders Emerge; Bertelsmann In Line to Take Over

Los Angeles -- No new bidders for the assets of file-sharing service
Napster emerged before a Wednesday deadline, making Bertelsmann the prime
candidate to acquire the assets of the company as early as next week, The
Los Angeles Times reported. A committee of unsecured creditors of the
company had tried to solicit bidders other than Bertelsmann, asking for a
minimum of $25 million compared to Bertelsmann's claimed bid of over $100
million -- including loans of around $85 million to Napster to develop a
paid membership service. "Given the time frame, I think we did everything
humanly possible," Rick Chance, managing director of Trenwith Securities,
the company hired to solicit additional bidders, told The Times.
Bertelsmann's plans for Napster remain unclear; former CEO Thomas
Middlehoff, who had championed the company's involvement with Napster, was
ousted from the company last month.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-napster22aug22.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dtechnology
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o Digital Cinema Developer World Theatre Gets Patent, Seeks Funding

Raleigh, N.C. -- World Theatre Inc., a developer of digital content
delivery and management systems, announced that it has been granted a U.S.
patent covering its business method for distributing and scheduling
digital movie content to cinemas and electronic billboards. The company
has raised $30 million in debt and equity so far, and said it has hired
Credit Suisse First Boston as its financial advisor for a second round of
venture capital. North Carolina-based World Theatre announced a license
agreement with BMG North America last October. The company is headed by
Robert Summer, the former president of Sony Music and RCA Records.
http://www.world-theatre.com/pr05.htm
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Briefly Noted:

(London) The Association of Independent Music (AIM), a non-profit group of
U.K. independent record labels, announced on Friday that it has licensed
the repertoire of its members for inclusion on a customized CD service
offered by DJ Power Europe. The system allows fans to create personal CD
compilations via kiosks in night clubs, record retailers, video rental and
book stores, newspaper reply coupons and over the Internet, at a cost of
about $1.40 per track. DJ Power Europe has already launched kiosks in the
Netherlands and plans to have 100,000 tracks available as it opens
"hundreds" of additional kiosks across Europe.
http://www.musicindie.org/intro/news/press_releases/23_08_02.html
http://www.djpower.nl

(Redwood City, Calif.) Liquid Audio, a provider of digital music
distribution technology, announced on Friday that it has expanded its
board, electing two new directors of the company. James D. Somes, managing
director of Alexander Dunham Capital and Judith N. Frank, the principal of
Asset Strategies, join Redwood City, Calif.-based Liquid Audio's five
existing directors -- which include the company's chief executive and
financial officers.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020823/sff010_1.html
http://www.liquidaudio.com

(Boulder, Colo.) Cornerband.com, a provider of online promotional help and
download distribution for unsigned musical acts, announced a new service
for bands that will make their songs appear more frequently when users
search on Sharman Networks' Kazaa file-sharing service. Colorado-based
Cornerband.com will use Altnet -- a copyright-secured service that
piggybacks on the Kazaa service -- to allow bands that pay to sign up for
the service to have their songs appear when users enter generic search
terms based on a genre of music, such as "hip-hop."
http://www.cornerband.com/html/about/about.asp

(Milpitas, Calif.) Sigma Designs, a developer of video compression and
streaming technologies, announced the release of the source code behind
its free MPEG-4 video codec. The compression format works as a plug-in
under Windows and encodes digitized video content into compatible MPEG-4
video files. "We are pleased to provide the development community with an
open source MPEG-4 codec, and anticipate that this will accelerate
technical improvements and enhance the proliferation of MPEG-4 content,"
said Ken Lowe, Sigma Designs' vice president of business development.
http://www.sigmadesigns.com/news/press_releases/020822.htm

(San Francisco) CNET News.com recently reported on the upcoming launch of
online gaming services by two of the major video game console players,
Sony and Microsoft. Sony will begin selling network adapters that connect
its PlayStation 2 to the Internet next Tuesday, while Microsoft's Xbox
Live service is slated to launch on Nov. 15.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-954972.html?tag=cd_mh
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