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Techdirt (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Progress & Freedom Foundation is hosting its annual tech policy conference in Aspen, and given that it's PFF we're talking about, it's chock full of entertainment industry folks without any input from anyone who questions the basic premise that the entertainment industry puts forth: that content creators need to charge for each individual copy of their works. Thus, it...
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | yesterday
Julia Boorstin submits: High gasoline prices and the pullback in consumer spending are impacting Americans' entertainment habits -- but not the way you'd think. Perhaps the entertainment industry overall really is recession-proof: People may be skipping their vacations, but a "staycation" these days means watching more TV and playing more video games. Complete Story »
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Source: [b]San Francisco Chronicle[/b] In a victory for small-time music copiers over the entertainment industry, a federal judge ruled today that copyright-holders can't order one of their songs removed from the Web without first checking to see if the excerpt was so small and innocuous that it wa...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
Xytech Systems Celebrates 20th Anniversary (1988-2008) as Leading Software Company to the Media and Entertainment IndustryIBC 2008BURBANK, Calif. & London--()--Xytech Systems Corporation, a leading provider of software solutions that improve, automate, and streamline the mission critical business aspects of media operations including business workflow, resource scheduling, media library...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
SEATTLE, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are two
companies fortunate enough to be bailed out. But for thousands of smaller
mortgage companies that bailout means nothing. So Ronnie Bramsche, a former
mortgage lender, has closed the doors to the mortgage company and opened a
brand new niche to the entertainment industry by launching TheNetGirls.com.
TheNetGirls.com...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- ArtistForce announced new features
and a licensing agreement with Billboard and Nielsen Business Media that
will leverage data from the parties and enable the first real-time live
entertainment business data resource available on ArtistForce.com.
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For ArtistForce customers, this new release eliminates historically
latent industry...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a victory for small-time music copiers over the entertainment industry, a federal judge ruled today that copyright-holders can't order one of their songs removed from the Web without first checking to see if the excerpt was so small and innocuous that it...
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Big News Network.com (Free subscription) | 08/16/2008
Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, Francois Truffaut, Federico Fellini - they were exclusive names in the domains of discerning and cerebral moviegoers across India until a few years ago. Not any more.Earlier, the iconic movies made by them were either shown in film festivals organised by small groups or sold in video formats at exorbitant prices in high-end home entertainment stores. The process...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
SANTA MONICA, Calif.--()--EquaTrax – a joint venture between two major record labels and IT 2.0 solutions provider Exigen – has delivered the beta version of the first Shared Royalty Platform (SRP) to Universal Music Group (UMG) for testing. The new system is designed to lower operational costs for a variety of entertainment media companies, including music, film and television. SRP will be...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
System Is Delivered to Universal Music Group, Available to Other Record
Companies
& Is Ready for Adaptation to Film Publishing & Other Media Companies
SRP Consolidates Industry's Backroom Functions for Increased Flexibility,
Productivity, Transparency and Reduced Costs
SANTA MONICA, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- EquaTrax -- a joint venture
between two major record labels and IT 2.0 solutions...
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Marketing Roadmaps (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
If you're interested in the shift currently happening in the entertainment industry from the traditional studio driven model, in which a few media moguls control the purse strings and our screens, to a user-generated creativity-driven online model -- for example,...
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Market Wire - Media and Entertainment: Television (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
WASHINGTON, DC (MARKET WIRE) PLARS Entertainment today announced that it has signed child Hip-Hop sensation Bentley Green to its roster of artists. At the mere age of 7, Bentley has a rich history in the Entertainment Industry and has been recognized by the likes of Ellen DeGeneres, Maury Povich, and has created a rap for Dallas Mavericks. Bentley has a loyal fan base in the southern...
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Celebrity Baby Blog (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
... her Preston and Jayden "unconditionally," she would prefer that they didn't choose a career in the entertainment industry. She explains, "I'd just as soon they have a more normal childhood." Despite challenges, Britney continues to improve, guided by father Jamie Spears , who currently acts as conservator of her affairs. Although both admit the situation has been strained, they also...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MarketCast, a leading marketing research and strategy firm serving the entertainment industry (
