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o Justice Department Widens Investigation of MusicNet, Pressplay
o Congress Rejects RIAA Additions to Anti-Terrorism Bill
o E-Publishing Firm IUniverse Raises $18 Million
o Brill Selling Inside.com, Shutting Down Brill's Content Magazine
o Sirius May Delay Satellite Radio Service Until 2002
o StreamSage Gets $2 Million in Federal Funds
o Briefly Noted: Google - AT&T Wireless, Motorola - Cybiko, Wind River -
Sonicblue, AOL Time Warner - Albany, N.Y., NGame - Telus Mobility, Crosby,
Stills and Nash
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"Office Space - L.A.," "SHORTSPAN Film & Video Festival, OCTOBER
DATES," "Digital Media Revolution in the Americas"

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o Justice Department Widens Investigation of MusicNet, Pressplay

New York -- The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has expanded its
investigation of potential antitrust concerns posed by the major labels'
joint ventures to distribute music online, The Wall Street Journal
reported on Monday. Currently, major labels Warner Music, BMG and EMI are
working with AOL and RealNetworks to develop a subscription service called
MusicNet, while Sony Music and Universal Music have partnered with
Microsoft to launch Pressplay. The DOJ sent subpoenas to the major labels
asking for records of their licensing agreements with one another, to find
out if the agreements effectively eliminate potential competition from
other online services. Companies such as Napster and FullAudio are
currently working to attain such licenses, and one company, MusicBank,
shut down before even launching its service due to its inability to secure
such licenses. U.K.-based paper The Sunday Times reported that the
European Union is also investigating anti-trust issues related to the
subscription services. "There are several aspects that merit investigation
to determine whether or not there are restrictions of competition," said a
spokesman for Mario Monti, the EU's competition commissioner.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7525332.html?tag=cd_pr
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/14/stibusnws03010.html
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7531010.html?tag=cdshrt
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o Congress Rejects RIAA Additions to Anti-Terrorism Bill

Washington -- An amendment to anti-terrorism legislation proposed by the
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) that would have given the
recording industry the authority to snoop on users' computers and delete
pirated files has been defeated, Wired News reported on Monday. A draft of
the bill stated that the RIAA and other copyright holders would not be
held liable for any other files that may have been accidentally deleted in
the process of sniffing out infringers. The RIAA said that the current
bill, without its amendment, could interfere with their efforts to stem
copyright infringement online. "We might try and block somebody," RIAA
lobbyist Mitch Glazier told Wired News. "If we know someone is operating a
server, a pirated music facility, we could try to take measures to try and
prevent them from uploading or transmitting pirated documents." Glazier
said the RIAA has abandoned this amendment in favor of a more moderate
stance.
http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47552,00.html
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o E-Publishing Firm IUniverse Raises $18 Million

Campbell, Calif. -- IUniverse, a provider of technology that lets both
authors and companies publish their own e-book and print-on-demand titles,
announced on Monday that it has received an $18 million investment from
Warburg Pincus. Campbell-based IUniverse claims it has produced more
self-published titles than any other provider, having printed and sold
over 750,000 books. The company will use the funds to increase both the
area its services can reach and its total production capacity.
http://www.iuniverse.com/b2b/media/content.asp?id=17010&cid=61&headline=
iUniverse+Secures+Additional+%2418+Million+in+Funding
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o Brill Selling Inside.com, Shutting Down Brill's Content Magazine

San Francisco -- CNET reported on Monday that publisher Steven Brill will
sell online media and entertainment industry news site Inside.com to
Primedia and is also shutting down his Brill's Content magazine, according
to an email sent to employees and obtained by CNET. Financial terms of the
Inside.com sale were not disclosed. Most of Inside.com's 40-member staff
will be laid off, and the site will instead feature Primedia articles.
"This was not the way I wanted things to turn out for me, for my
unstintingly supportive Brill Media partners, for those at Primedia with
whom we have worked, and for you," Brill wrote in the email. Brill will
also end ties with Primedia, with which he partnered to create Media
Central, a central online location meant to distribute articles originally
written for Primedia's many media-related publications.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7529487.html?tag=mn_hd
http://www.inside.com
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o Sirius May Delay Satellite Radio Service Until 2002

New York -- A Reuters report quoted a number of analysts who said that
Sirius Satellite Radio may not be able to launch its service as planned in
December, instead delaying the launch by several weeks or a month into
2002. New York-based Sirius has not yet announced the completion of
technology needed in order for consumer radios to pick up the company's
satellite signals. Rival XM Satellite Radio recently launched its service
in San Diego and Dallas.
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1006-200-7508933.html?tag=cdshrt
http://www.siriusradio.com
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o StreamSage Gets $2 Million in Federal Funds

Washington, D.C. -- StreamSage, a developer of software capable of
automatically indexing, searching, and personalizing audio and video
content, announced on Monday that it has received a $2 million award from
the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Department's Advanced Technology
Program's goal is to "accelerate the development of innovative
technologies that promise widespread benefits for the nation."
Washington-based StreamSage's technology automatically indexes video so
that when users search for a particular keyword, an excerpt containing the
keyword -- that includes the natural beginning and ending of the clip --
is returned. StreamSage will use the funds for product development.
http://www.streamsage.com
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o Briefly Noted:

(Mountain View, Calif.) Google, a provider of search engine technology,
said on Monday that it has partnered with AT&T Wireless to offer the
company's subscribers with Web-enabled phones the ability to search its
index of 1.6 billion Web pages. Mountain View-based Google has similar
deals to provide search capabilities to Sprint PCS, Cingular, Handspring,
Palm, Vodafone, Yahoo, E-Chilipadi in Malaysia, and Japanese I-mode,
J-Sky, and EZWeb cell phones.
http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/att.html

(Schaumburg, Ill.) Motorola announced on Monday that it will offer games
developed by handheld device maker Cybiko to users with its Java-enabled
cell phones. The phones allow users to download and update software to
suit their needs. The Cybiko games will be available for download for
between $5 and $8.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/011015/hsm006_1.html
http://www.nextel.com/idenupdate
http://www.cybiko.com

(Alameda, Calif.) Wind River, a provider of software and services for
network-connected devices, said on Monday that it will provide technology
that enables Sonicblue's ReplayTV 4000 personal video recorders to connect
to one another. The technology will let ReplayTV 4000 owners send recorded
TV shows between multiple devices in their homes, or share them with other
ReplayTV 4000 owners across the public Internet.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/011015/150333_1.html
http://www.windriver.com
http://www.replaytv.com

(Albany, N.Y.) AOL Time Warner announced on Monday that it has launched
AOL high-speed cable modem Internet access services on Time Warner Cable
lines in Albany, New York. Stipulations placed on AOL's merger with Time
Warner by the U.S. government mandate that a rival service must now be
launched on the system within 90 days. Atlanta-based EarthLink has so far
announced deployments along with AOL Time Warner in several other cities.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgibin/f_headline.cgi?bw.101501/212882097&ticker=AOL

(Cambridge, U.K.) NGame, a developer of wireless games, said on Monday
that it has partnered with Canadian mobile network operator Telus Mobility
to offer its games to subscribers on a pay-per-play basis. Users will pay
a small fee each time they access one of U.K.-based NGame's 11 games,
which include a title based on Paramount Pictures' film "Rat Race."
http://www.ngame.com
http://www.telusmobility.com/

(Redwood City, Calif.) Recording artists Crosby, Stills and Nash said on
Monday that they will distribute an unreleased single on the Internet,
with the proceeds going to the ClearChannel.com Relief Fund to aid victims
and survivors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The song, "Half Your
Angels," will be sold as a download on 1,100 Clear Channel-owned radio
station websites using Redwood City-based Liquid Audio's technology. The
band will also release the song as a CD single sold online and at retail.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/011015/sfm005_1.html
http://www.crosbystillsnash.com

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> Vice President of Sales - United States

We are a six-year-old E-Learning company expanding our sales presence in
the US. We are looking for a proven sales leader. Our streaming technology
is proprietary, our client base is outstanding, our track record is
extremely strong. We are in search of kindred spirits who believe that
great technology companies are built by great people not hype. If your
knowledge of technology is strong and you have a demonstrable history
(10+years) of significant sales success -- we would like to speak with
you. This position can be located anywhere in the US. Send resumes to
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> CTAM Broadband Opportunity Conference, Nov. 6-8 -- Tysons Corner, VA

Get the FYI on HSI and iTV at CTAM's Broadband Opportunity Conference Nov
6-8, Sheraton Premiere Tysons Corner. Keynote speakers: Maggie Bellville,
Incanta; Christopher P. Bogart, Time Warner Cable Ventures; Charles F.
Dolan, Cablevision Systems Corporation & Steve Wadsworth, The Walt Disney
Internet Group. Call CTAM at 703.549.4200. For more information contact:
tania@ctam.com
http://www.ctambroadband.com
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> Office Space For Rent - Los Angeles

Prime Sunset Boulevard location. Approx. 588 sq ft. Second floor, spacious
two + offices with private bathroom. Convenient parking. Recently
renovated. Quiet, nice work environment. Other tenants in building are
primarily entertainment and new media companies. DSL-ready. Rent is $1,175
per month.
For more information, please call 323-363-3620.
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> SHORTSPAN Film & Video Festival, OCTOBER DATES

SHORT MOVIES! Dreamspan presents the 9TH Annual Short Attention Span Film & Video Festival. Shortspan is a non-stop two hour program of ALL NEW
two-minute or-shorter films, including ultra-short documentaries like
"Peekaboo Sunday," a story about raising miniature horses or "Exotic
World," an inside look at the lives of some of America's first burlesque
performers-- and 57 more shorts! The tour will travel to 30 North American
cities.

CHICAGO, IL: Columbia College - Oct. 10 - 7PM
BOSTON, MA: Boston University - Oct. 10 - 7PM
KYONGIU CITY, SOUTH KOREA: Film & Video Dept - Oct 10
BROOKLINE, MA: Coolidge Corner Theatre - Oct. 12-18
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Lucky Bar - Oct. 23 - 8PM
SALT LAKE CITY, UT: Univ. of Utah Union Theatre - Oct. 24 - 8PM

HOLLYWOOD, CA: The American Cinematheque - Oct. 17 - 7:30PM
SAN DIEGO, CA: San Diego Museum of Art - Oct. 18 - 7:30PM
BERKELEY, CA: Fine Arts Cinema - Oct. 23-24 - 9:30PM

For more info: http://www.dreamspan.com/shortspan
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> Digital Media Revolution in the Americas, 11/29-12/01 -- Pasadena, CA

Presented by the Institute of the Americas and Annenberg School for
Communication, this 2 1/2 day forum will include Sr. Exec. Networking w/ a
special focus on Latin Americas & U.S. Hispanic markets, copyright, rights
mgmt., dist., infrastructure, digital film, iTV, streaming, device trends,
content financing. Early-bird 40% off till 9/30. Keynote Steven Bandel,
Pres. - The Cisneros Group. Sponsors: JP Morgan, Motorola, Global
Crossing, Walt Disney Company, Digital Media Wire, Cahners International
TV, iHollywood, Motion Picture Assoc., National Assoc. of TV Prog. Exec.,
National Assoc. of Theatre owners. For more information:
martin@iamericas.org
Register at: http://www.iamericas.org/events
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