Will Copyrights Restrict Media Use Over Home Networks?
Posted on July 13, 2007
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As we get more familiar with home networking we’re likely to start buying appliances that will display Digital Media stored on our computers in other rooms of the house. As consumers, we are likely to regard such uses as entirely legitimate and consistent with the personal use application under the Fair Use exemption of the Copyright Act.
But, as Will Rogers put it, “If I don’t see things your way, why should I?” In short, broadcasters and content rights holders may consider that the distribution of media across home networks is not an implicit right of the acquired media. Our guest today is an intellectual property attorney who discusses how this issue came up at last month’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) meeting.
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A Point-and-Shoot Camcorder for the Mass Market
Posted on July 11, 2007
Owing to exponential growth at YouTube nearly everyone is conscious of Internet video. Increasingly, many of us want to make our own. As a result, companies are starting to market un-complex “point-and-shoot” camcorders that make the process simple enough for the mass market.
Today’s guest is Rich Phipps who is Director of Business Development at Thomson Audio Video, which markets under the venerable RCA brand. Recently they introduced a $129 “point-and-shoot” camcorder that stores the pictures in solid state memory, instead of tape.
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Slide.com is the YouTube of Slide Shows (Part 2 of 2)
Posted on July 9, 2007
(Part 2 of 2). If you would like to learn how you can upload your JPEGs to produce a Web-accessible slide show, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Keith Rabois who is a Vice President for Strategy with Slide.com. His company not only permits you to make Web-accessible slide shows, the process generates a url that enables you to insert hyperlinks to the slide shows within the text of your own blog or emails.
Basically, Slide.com does for slide shows what YouTube does for videos. Read more…
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Slide.com is the YouTube of Slide Shows
Posted on July 6, 2007
(Part 1 of 2). If you would like to learn how you can upload your JPEGs to produce a Web-accessible slide show, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Keith Rabois who is a Vice President for Strategy with Slide.com. His company not only permits you to make Web-accessible slide shows, the process generates a url that enables you to insert hyperlinks to the slide shows within the text of your own blog or emails. Read more…
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