I asked the people on my upcoming panel if they had any questions. The last one: Will Google buy YouTube? Yesterday’s chatter was all about the Tribune publisher being pushed…

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TiVo’s stock tumbled 12 percent yesterday, in response to an appeals court ruling that EchoStar could sell DVRs (for now, at least), but that’s not what has TiVo fans angry…

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The DRM-buster DVD Jon is at it again: after a short stint at MP3.com founder Michael Robertson’s various ventures, he has reverse-engineered (essentially replicated) Apple’s Fairplay DRM and is starting…

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RealNetworks is teaming up with SanDisk to release a portable music player that more closely links with its Rhapsody online music service...this is the first time RNWK has done such…

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A little nosing around on a holiday weekend turns up this detail from someone knowledgeable about the MySpace Music-Snocap deal: no money is changing hands but Fox Interactive Media/MySpace.com stands…

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Engadget is among those suggesting Microsoft should look the other way when it comes to a tiny but potentially mighty program called FairUse4WM, which strips the DRM from Windows Media…

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Verance, a San Diego-based audio and video watermarking solutions firm, has received $1 million in seventh round of funding, according to PwCMoneyTree Survey. Investors included Blue Chip Venture Company, Canaan…

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Wikimedians and interested parties gather at Harvard Law’s Berkman Center for a variety of activities last week including Wikimania ‘06. Audio, video and more archived here. Some of the content…

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In Japan, the government plans to ask broadcasters and makers of home appliances to ease a copy protection rule for digital TV broadcasts to allow viewers to copy recorded programs…

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-- Bebo Bands: The social networking site, which has emerged as a serious competitor to MySpace particularly in the UK, has launched Bebo Bands, a music-upload service in the mode…

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APProtect Technologies, an Israeli start-up which has developed software protection solutions for game consoles and PCs, has received $0.745 million in its first round. The investors were Vertex Venture Capital,…

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Australia’s Sharman Networks Ltd., owner of the Kazaa file-sharing service, has reached a global settlement of all legal disputes between the company and major content providers/trade groups. Various reports peg…

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Forget bots and automated web crawlers ... the Hong Kong government has enlisted 200,000 youth ages 9-25 from 11 organizations including the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides to patrol the…

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Verimatrix, the San Diego-based video content protection and DRM firm, has received $8 million in its second round of funding. The round was led by Crescendo Ventures and included Mission…

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A legislative committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday on compromise text that would weaken a French law aimed at establishing interoperability for media players and online music stores. A new…

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Our friend John Blossom looks at the way Microsoft is making Creative Commons licensing easier by adding it to Office even as it steps up anti-piracy/DRM efforts of its own.…

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BBC Newsnight thought it might shed some light on movement in the ongoing debate over sharing versus copyright to invite EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow and MPAA CEO Dan Glickman…

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Another report about the evolution of copyright in the UK. In this installment, we learn that even though it’s still illegal to copy personal CDs to PCs or MP3 players—even…

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BPI, the UK version of the RIAA, is warning users of Russian site allofmp3.com that the doanloads are illegal despite the site’s claim to be licensed. Critics say even if…

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-- Emmis stations add iTunes stores to their websites: Emmis Communications is the first radio broadcaster to cut a deal to sell iTunes downloads; hip-hop stations WQHT (NY) and KPWR…

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AOL has quietly entered the user-gen video realm with the soft launch of UnCut Video beta, powered by VideoEgg. Tag line: “See it. Shoot it. Share it.” According to a…

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The louder the raving the more inevitable the ranting ... nothing disappoints like the failure of potential or a sense—perceived or real—that something good has gone awry. Now it’s YouTube‘s…

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The Inquirer reports that the French legislative effort to require interoperability has been “gutted” in a victory for Apple but the IHT version has Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, the French…

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Widevine, a video DRM firm has received $16 million from several investors, including network equipment maker Cisco Systems. Thecompany’s encryption technology scrambles digital video signals as they leave a service…

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So much for those notions of a P2P Utopia in France. Ditto for predictions of copyright chaos or an iTunes France shutdown. The left-wing MPs lost out in today’s parlimentary…

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