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o Movie
Studios File Suit Against DVD-Copying Software Distributors
o WSJ:
Bertelsmann, Warner Still See Potential Music Merger
o Avid
Gets $6.7 Million Digital Upgrade Contract With NBC
o Music
Retailer Trans World Acquires Rivals CD World, Wherehouse
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o Movie Studios File Suit Against
More DVD-Copying Software Distributors
New York -- Two major movie studios yesterday filed lawsuits
against the makers and distributors of software that allows
consumers to make perfect copies of DVD movies. Paramount Pictures
and 20th Century Fox on Wednesday filed suit in federal court in
Manhattan against Tritton Technologies, distributor of the CopyWare
application, as well as QOJ, World Reach and Proto Ventures. The
companies sell software they say allows consumers to make legal
backup copies of their DVD movies. The studios argue that the
software illegally circumvents the anti-copying technologies
embedded on DVD movies -- a violation of the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act. The lawsuit asks the court to halt sales of Tritton's
and the other firms' software, and seeks unspecified monetary
damages. The Motion Picture Association of America is also embroiled
in a lawsuit against 321 Studios, makers of DVD X Copy, a similar
DVD copying program that can currently be purchased at CompUSA.
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5078419.html
http://www.trittonsales.com
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o WSJ:
Bertelsmann, Warner Still See Potential Music Merger
New York -- Negotiations between major record
labels Warner Music and Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG), concerning a
"last-ditch" effort to forge a merger of the two companies, resumed
this week, The Wall Street Journal reported. AOL Time Warner had
reportedly offered to form a 50-50 joint venture between Warner
Music and BMG, excluding its music publishing unit from the deal. If
the two companies fail to reach an agreement this week, either or
both of them may re-enter negotiations with fellow major label EMI,
which previously expressed interest in both Warner and BMG.
http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030918/0115000042_1.html
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o Avid Gets
$6.7 Million Digital Upgrade Contract With NBC
Tewksbury, Mass. -- Avid Technologies, a
manufacturer of professional video editing equipment, announced a
new $6.7 million contract with NBC, to replace several of the
network's tape-based news production systems with its digital
newsroom systems. NBC will begin the deployment of
Massachusetts-based Avid's systems at its NBC News headquarters in
New York, its MSNBC news operations center in New Jersey, and NBC
Washington bureau.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030917/175057_1.html
http://www.avid.com
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o Music
Retailer Trans World Acquires Rivals CD World, Wherehouse
Albany, N.Y. -- Trans World Entertainment,
operator of music retail chain stores including FYE (For Your
Entertainment), Coconuts and Strawberries, announced on Thursday
that it has reached an agreement to acquire the assets of fellow
retailer CD World for $1.8 million. CD World, currently operating in
Ch. 11 bankruptcy, operates 13 locations in New Jersey and Missouri.
Earlier this week, New York-based Trans World said it would purchase
the assets of another bankrupt retailer, Wherehouse Entertainment,
for $41 million. The deal brought Trans World a total of 148 new
locations, 35 of which it said will be closed and liquidated.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030918/nyth033_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030915/nysu020_1.html
http://www.twec.com
http://www.fye.com
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o Vendare Group
Acquires Vivendi's TrafficMarketplace Online Ad Network
Sherman Oaks, Calif. -- The Vendare
Group, a provider of performance-based online marketing solutions,
announced on Thursday that it has acquired Vivendi Universal's
TrafficMarketplace, an online advertising distribution network.
Financial details of the all-cash transaction were not disclosed.
TrafficMarketplace's ad-targeting technology delivers advertisers'
messages to more than 70 million unique users per month via its
database of participating publishers. Sherman Oaks, Calif.-based
Vendare Group in June also purchased Vivendi's Flipside, an network
of online games sites offering cash prizes.
http://www.trafficmarketplace.com
http://www.vendaregroup.com
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o RealNetworks,
Fox Sports Team on College Football Webcasts
Seattle -- Media delivery technology provider RealNetworks announced
on Thursday that it has partnered with Fox Sports to offer
exclusive, live video webcasts of both out-of-market and
non-televised college football games for the 2003 season. The games
to be broadcast will be announced on a weekly basis, depending on
Fox Sports Net's college football television broadcast schedule.
Out-of-market games will be available to subscribers to RealNetworks'
RealOne SuperPass service for an additional $9.95 per month; the
weekly Internet-only pay-per-view game (FOX Sports Game of the Week)
will be offered for free to SuperPass subscribers, or else for
$14.95 per game to non-subscribers.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030917/sfw027_1.html
http://www.realone.com/sports
http://www.foxsports.com
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o Briefly Noted:
(Madrid) Seeking to expand into Europe, Overture Services announced
that it has launched pay-for-performance Internet search services in
Spain. Once established, Overture Spain estimates that it will reach
about 71% of Spain's Internet users, or more than 14 million people.
The Pasadena, Calif.-based company also plans to set up operations
in Austria, Switzerland and the Nordic countries by year's end.
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H2DA12FE5
http://www.overture.com
(New York) MLB.com, the website for Major League Baseball, said on
Thursday that it will offer subscribers to its MLB.TV service the
ability to simultaneously watch two live, out-of-market game
webcasts involving a pennant race each day for the rest of the
regular season. The MLB.TV Double Play service will let viewers
navigate between two games displayed side-by-side in separate media
player windows.
http://www.mlb.tv
(San Francisco) Faith West, a distributor of wireless entertainment
content under the Modtones brand, announced on Thursday the release
of new "musical animations," available for download by subscribers
of Verizon Wireless' Get It Now service. The animations, released in
Faith West's proprietary CMX format, will offer music combined with
animations created by Shepard Fairey, Greg "Peanut" Galinsky, Ruby
Gloom and French Kitty. The release also includes what Faith West
claims is the first music video for mobile phones, "In the Waiting
Line" by Quango/Palm recording artist Zero 7.
http://www.modtones.com
(Redwood City, Calif.) Game developer Electronic Arts announced that
it will postpone the release of its "James Bond 007: Everything or
Nothing" title until 2004, citing the need for additional
development time for the game. EA also announced that recording
artist Mya, who performs the "Everything or Nothing" title song for
the movie's soundtrack, will now appear in the game as well.
Separately, Redwood City, Calif.-based Electronic Arts announced the
release of "Disney's Party" for Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy
Advance, created in conjunction with Disney Interactive, a
publishing label of Buena Vista Games. The title was developed by
Japanese firm Hudson Soft.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030918/185206_1.html
http://www.007.ea.com
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/030918/185271_1.html
http://www.hudson.co.jp/corp/eng
(Redmond, Wash.) Microsoft Game Studios has announced a development
deal with North Carolina-based Epic Games, creator of the "Unreal"
multiplayer title and game engine technology. Under the terms,
Epic's Scion Studios will develop several new titles to be published
for Microsoft Xbox and the Windows PC platform.
http://www.scionstudios.com/news_9-16-03.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/games
http://www.epicgames.com
(New York) AtomTelevision, a cable television channel joint venture
between short films distributor AtomFilms and Global Media Holdings,
announced on Thursday that Altrio Communications has launched
AtomTelevision content on the company's video-on-demand service.
Altrio provides bundled high-speed Internet access, local and
long-distance telephone service, and television and video-on-demand
services in the Los Angeles area, including the cities of Pasadena,
Arcadia and Monrovia.
http://www.altrio.net
http://www.atomtelevision.com
(Los Angeles) Cell phone maker Nokia said on Thursday that it will
offer owners of its phones with multimedia messaging service (MMS)
the option to receive pictures snapped by photographers equipped
with Nokia 3650 camera phones on the red carpet at the Emmy Awards
this Sunday. The service will be available to Nokia owners
subscribed to carriers AT&T Wireless or T-Mobile.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030918/dath024_1.html
http://www.nokiaredcarpetpics.com
(San Francisco) CNET News.com recently featured an interview with
Recording Industry of America (RIAA) president Cary Sherman, on the
topic of the group's recent filing of 261 lawsuits against
individuals who traded music on file-sharing services. Sherman
discusses the public relations backlash resulting from the legal
campaign, why the group didn't first investigate those whom it had
subpoenaed, and the likelihood of additional suits being filed
against file-swappers. "We'll be filing another round of lawsuits
next month," Sherman told News.com. "The idea is to keep the
lawsuits coming in order to reinforce the message that we are
serious about changing people's behavior, and that they should not
engage in the illegal activity. If people thought this was a
one-time thing, the deterrent impact would be lost. So we feel like
we have to go forward with additional lawsuits, and we intend to do
so."
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-5078418.html
http://www.riaa.com
(New York) The New York Times on Thursday published an interview
with about 50 students at a middle school outside San Francisco, on
the topic of music downloading, including their reactions to the
recent lawsuits filed against individual song-swappers, and the
steps some students and their parents have taken to discuss the
issue. "If you're not selling it [downloaded music], why is it
wrong?" asked 13-year-old Korbi Blanchard. "If it's something for
personal use, as long as you're not redistributing it, it should be
O.K." "They're [musicians] not losing money, because we still buy
the T-shirts and go to their concerts," said fellow classmate Sonya
Arndt. "They're still famous."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/technology/circuits/18kids.html
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