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SafeNet Acquires Beep Science
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published May 15, 2008
A diversified security technology company bets on OMA DRM. [more DRM Technologies]

RightsFlow Partners with Harry Fox Agency to Automate Digital Music Download Licensing
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published May 15, 2008
A new startup finds opportunity in the unglamorous part of the online music business. [more Online Content Services]

Microsoft Treads Thin Line in Media-Tech Debate
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published May 8, 2008
Microsoft's chief IP counsel paints a bleak picture of the digital future for content creators and offers a better way forward. [more Legal Issues]

Judge Jeopardizes "Making Available" Theory of Online Piracy
By Solveig Singleton - Published May 8, 2008
The decision in Atlantic v. Howell throws future online piracy litigation into uncertainty. [more Legal Issues]

SonyBMG Licenses Catalog to we7 for Free Ad-Supported Access
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published May 1, 2008
A step down the slippery slope of free music puts subscription services like Rhapsody and Napster at risk. [more Online Content Services]

Sony Acquires Gracenote
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published April 24, 2008
Sony is poised to capture a piece of the music industry's move from product to service revenue. [more Watermarking & Fingerprinting]

USA Video Interactive Announces Deal with Fox Home Video
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published April 24, 2008
The watermarking company's breakthrough first deal with a major Hollywood studio. [more Watermarking & Fingerprinting]

Philips Announces Watermarking and Fingerprinting Advances at NAB
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published April 17, 2008
Transactional watermarking for music and video, and fingerprinting for live vide. [more Watermarking & Fingerprinting]

Microsoft Announces DRM for Silverlight
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published April 17, 2008
Competitive positioning against Adobe in the emerging market for rich-media web applications. [more DRM Technologies]

Will Symantec Embrace Enterprise Rights Management?
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published April 10, 2008
CEO John W. Thompson's keynote at RSA 2008 offers some hints. [more Enterprise Rights Management]

CTIA Roundup: Will Music DRM Live or Die in the Wireless World?
By Azita Arvani - Published April 10, 2008
New mobile devices and content services support DRM, but some wonder whether the DRM-free trend for Internet music downloads will spill over to the mobile world. [more DRM Technologies]

Developments in Subsidized Music Subscription Services
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published April 3, 2008
Nokia advances licensing talks for its Comes With Music service, while TDC of Denmark launches no-extra-charge music for its subscribers. [more Online Content Services]

Warner Music Group Pursues ISP Levies
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published April 3, 2008
A sign of desperation as one of the major music companies turns to ISPs for revenue. [more Online Content Services]

SlySoft Cracks Blu-ray Encryption
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published March 26, 2008
The Antiguan vendor of DVD ripping software cracks Blu-ray's BD+... at least for the moment. [more Online Content Services]

Lime Wire Opens Music Store
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published March 26, 2008
Lime Wire offers DRM-free MP3s. Will it allow its users to easily share those files, now that it makes revenue from them? [more Online Content Services]

Adobe Releases DRM for Flash Video Downloads
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published March 20, 2008
Adobe achieves DRM feature parity with Microsoft's Silverlight. [more DRM Technologies]

News Publishers' Struggle with Google over ACAP Continues
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published March 20, 2008
Google CEO Eric Schmidt expresses non-non-support for the content indexing rights standard. [more DRM Standards]

IPTV World Forum Roundup
By Bill Rosenblatt - Published March 13, 2008
Customer wins and new product announcements from IPTV security vendors. The horse race continues; who will win? [more DRM Technologies]

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