http://digitalhhr.com An online community Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:20:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As part of the Distributed Computing Association's inaugural P2P market conference, Dan will be participating on a panel on P2P and Cloud Business Models.  The conference is being held on Tuesday, March 9 at the Cornell Club of New York in conjunction with Media.Summit 2010.  Registration information is available on DCIA's ... http://digitalhhr.com/2010/02/dan-to-speak-at-p2p-cloud-market-conference/ With all of the attention “TV Everywhere” is getting, it is not surprising that the most recent scrutiny is coming from public interest groups that are claiming the TV Everywhere platform (under which cable providers will offer their subscribers access to the content on screens outside of their homes) presents ... http://digitalhhr.com/2010/02/t-v-iolations-everywhere/ The latest in our on-going series of CLE-accredited Webinars will focus on the critical legal and business issues and questions raised by the emerging phenomenon of “TV Everywhere,” a digital platform agnostic solution that promises to enable pay TV subscribers online access to their programming wherever they may consume it via ... http://digitalhhr.com/2010/02/digital-hhr-presents-cle-webinar-on-tv-everywhere-march-11-2010/ The next interactive gaming revolution will soon be ushered in by a wave of gesture detection control systems, where the player's body controls the action.  Beginning this year, game developers and publishers will have the technology to develop a viable motion capture-based game, one with more potential applications than any ... http://digitalhhr.com/2010/01/dance-dance-copyright-revolution-interactive-gamings-upcoming-copyright-conundrum/ A highly classified house ethics committee report outlining inquiries involving dozens of members of Congress was recently leaked over the Internet after a junior committee staff member saved it on the hard drive of his home computer, on which he happened to have peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software installed.  There ... http://digitalhhr.com/2009/12/legislation-to-bar-fed-workers-from-downloading-p2p-software-introduced-in-house/ On December 17, we will be presenting “TV Everywhere - Is It Everywhere You Want to Be?”, the latest in our continuing series of free, CLE accredited webinars.  During the program, we will be taking a closer look at “TV Everywhere” (TVE), the fledgling initiative under which cable operators and ... http://digitalhhr.com/2009/11/tv-everywhere-v-over-the-top-the-ultimate-smackdown/ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently opened an inquiry into Google Voice, the popular messaging and call service offered by Google, and Google’s practice of blocking certain calls.   The inquiry was prompted by complaints from AT&T to the FCC accusing Google of unfairly blocking calls to certain numbers in rural areas ... http://digitalhhr.com/2009/11/playing-by-the-fccs-rules-google-voice-comes-under-fire/ We had recently written about how a dispute over the ownership of certain IP threatened to derail eBay's proposed sale of Skype.  Reports last week have revealed that Skype and parent eBay Inc. have reached a definitive settlement agreement with Skype’s founders that resolves litigation over the critical GI technology necessary to ... http://digitalhhr.com/2009/11/settlement-in-dispute-over-skype-will-allow-deal-to-proceed/ On October 22nd, France’s highest court approved the “three strike law”, which will deny Internet access to those people that illegally copy music and movies and are deemed repeat copyright infringers.  The bill, known as Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la Protection des droits sur Internet (High ... http://digitalhhr.com/2009/10/three-strikes-and-you%e2%80%99re%e2%80%a6outttt-of-french-cyberspace/ A recent Federal case involving an alleged agreement for exclusive rights to distribute an acclaimed film stands as a stark reminder of the need to fully comply with the formal requirements for transferring and assuming copyright ownership interests.  The suit was brought by The Weinstein Company, which sought to block the ... http://digitalhhr.com/2009/10/federal-judge-nixes-purported-distribution-deal-for-acclaimed-film-for-failure-to-comply-with-formalities/