Under pressure from the major media companies and the threat of a billion dollar suit from Viacom, Google unveiled a new system that would prevent copyrighted clips from being uploaded to YouTube without permission.
Google said it had been testing the system with nine media companies, including Time Warner, CBS and Disney. Others involved include NBC […]
Harry Potter director Alphonso Cuaron turned a request for a book blurb into an award winnng film. Meet the author of The Shock Doctrine and see the entire film now!
On the heels of the long awaited progress report on the troop surge in Iraq comes a potential cure for the collective amnesia that allows politicians and their appointees to revise history as it suits them. In a reply to L. Paul Bremer III’s simultaneous denial and defense (what an odd combination) of his dismantling […]
Product placement in films was in full swing this season with the top performers integrating no less than 25 brands into their projects. Which movie took the top spot? No big surprise it was the movie based on a toy brand, ‘The Transformers’.
Oddly enough, two of the most anticipated films of the summer contained no […]
Fresh from the nasty breakup of its stormy marriage with Apple iTunes, NBC Universal has found new love in the arms of another eCommerce behemoth - none other than Amazon and their dreaded Unbox.
Amazon is offering the greater flexibility in pricing (probably because they haven’t figured theirs out yet) that Apple said was a […]
