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June 15, 2006
SONY Music Changes
2 Executives at Sony Music Step Down Amid a Shake-Up - New York Times
Sony BMG Music Entertainment yesterday announced the resignations of the top two executives at its Sony Music Label Group, less than four months after the company's owners appointed a new chief executive in a bid to resolve management discord.
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June 14, 2006
Embracing Digital Era, PBS Hires John Boland of KQED to Fill New Post
Embracing Digital Era, PBS Hires John Boland of KQED to Fill New Post - New York Times
Staking its future in the digital media world, the Public Broadcasting Service has created a new post of chief content officer and named a public broadcasting executive with extensive digital experience to fill the job.
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iTunes vs CD sales revenue
Interesting article around Weid Al's statement that he gets far more from CD sales than digital downloads. They go on to analyze the two scenarios. Not sure quite how accurate it all is, but it does make a good read and starts to get at the components of each transaction.
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DRM
Coral Consotium - the EE Times reports that the group, which aims to create standards for digital rights management (DRM) interoperability, has announced the release of a new white paper which describes a web-based service that would let users share paid-for content across different DRM systems. The article reports that the new system, called Ecosystem-A, follows the group's existing interoperability framework, but it does not yet define key compliance procedures or how to distribute royalties. According to the article, the system would enable users to retain digital rights beyond the life of any one single device or online content store.
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DRM
Digital rights management (DRM) market developments - Red Herring provides figures from a report published by iSuppli which forecasts that worldwide sales of DRM and conditional access (CA) technologies will increase from $1.5bn in 2005 to $4.7bn in 2010. However, iSuppli warns that conflicting interests between content owners, content distributors and DRM providers could curtail the growth of the online and mobile content markets, thereby slowing the adoption of DRM and CA technologies.
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