As support for SOPA wanes, copyright issues persist

As support for SOPA wanes, copyright issues persist
Washington Post
One of the clients at his digital media firm managed to sell 10 copies of an instructional DVD before it was posted online and downloaded 10000 times for free within a matter of weeks. In the controversy over the Stop Online Piracy Act, ... 

New media 'gaining ground in Mena'
Trade Arabia
New Media (digital media: online and mobile) is becoming a more trusted source of news for Mena residents, with one in five saying they trust information online more than traditional media, said a survey. Seventy per cent of respondents admitted to ...

Less golden days loom for TV advertising in the Arab world
The National
Ravindranath K / The National The Arab world's US$1 billion (Dh3.67bn) television advertising industry is forecast to be "under strain" this year, as global firms cut spending on publicity and digital media continue to rise. ...

The National

Telegraph Hill to tap into 'social TV' growth
Digital Spy UK
Senior television industry executives have come together to form a digital media production company tapping into the new social media trends around TV viewing. Garret Keogh, the former head of digital content at MTV and cross platform director at ...

New Media becoming a more trusted source of news in MENA
Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)
New Media (Digital media: online and mobile) is becoming a more trusted source of news for MENA residents, 1 in 5 respondents say they trust information online more than traditional media, with 7 in 10 respondents admitting to watching TV ...

Business Intelligence Middle East (press release)

Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It
Forbes
I recently spoke with John A. Byrne's, who is the author of World Changers: 25 Entrepreneurs Who Changed Business as We Knew It. John is the founder and chief executive of C-Change Media, a digital media company creating niche business websites that ...

Forbes

Let's celebrate imperfection
Hindu Business Line
Photo:M.Periasamy Digital media has given the masses a voice without regard to what their message might be. What makes imperfect things succeed more than the perfect? Look at 'Kolaveri Di” for instance. It is as imperfect as can be and yet it is a ...

Hindu Business Line

Bringing together leading minds for the Digital Media Forum
Zawya (registration) (press release)
UAE, Dubai - 18 January, 2012: From social media trends to E-commerce, the Digital Media Forum tackles the latest in leading information in an ever evolving digital age from the 25 th to the 26 th of January, 2012 at the Habtoor Grand Hotel. ...

Next Issue Media Expands Executive Leadership Team
MarketWatch (press release)
"Brodie is a world-class marketing executive with deep experience building brand and customer value across emerging digital media categories," said Guenther. "He understands how Silicon Valley intersects with big media brands, and at a time of ...

Creative Class
The INDsider
Full-service agencies have to keep up with emerging trends if they want to stay ahead and compete with more and more companies focused solely on digital media. We asked industry pros on both sides of the advertising fence questions in a virtual ...

CEA: Home Entertainment Is Going Digital
Radio World
A study released this week by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) points to a growing trend of digital media consumption with over half of households reporting some form of streaming or downloaded video and audio content. ...

Hearst Names First CTO, Philip R. Wiser
Digital Media Wire
Wiser created the SCA Media Technology Group while at Sony, which was designed to unify the company's digital media standards across all of its operations. He formerly was chief technology officer and head of Digital Businesses for Sony Music ...

Digital Media Wire

Study: More Regional Ad Agencies Budget for Digital Specialists
AdAge.com
The fact that we have two years of comparative data also allows us to see how the mindset around core digital-media needs has shifted year over year. Some results are expected, but many are truly astounding. What's more interesting is different people ...

AdAge.com

Best Boy Entertainment receives funding boost from Ottawa
The Telegram
Best Boy Entertainment is a group of multi-media companies including Best Boy Productions (film and TV production), Best Boy International (marketing), Best Boy Media (digital media content) and Best Boy Studios Inc. “Developing new infrastructure and ...

7 in 10 MENA residents surf the web while watching TV
Rapid tv news
Digital media is becoming more pervasive in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with one in five people saying they trust online sources more than traditional media, and seven in ten watching TV at the same time as surfing the internet. ...

JMS receives $300000 donation
Daily Aztec
“Digital media literacy is essential for college students, and audiences in general, to become intelligent consumers of online information, and, ultimately, informed citizens,” Diane L. Borden, director of the School of Journalism & Media Studies, ...

Why the RFP fails in digital media buying - NextMark
By Joseph Pych
As a follow up to the 9 ways the RFP fails in digital media buying, this article shows how today'sdigital media landscape has rendered the RFP obsolete.
NextMark

Education News » Digital Media Literacy Education and Online Civic ...
By EducationViews.org
In addition, with controls for prior levels of online political activities, for political interest, and for a broad range of demographic variables, this study also finds that digital media literacy education is associated with increased online political ...
Education News

Questions on Social and Digital Media Marketing | Digital Pharma
By Digital Pharma Editor
Pamela Buford Answers Questions on Social and Digital Media Marketing.
Digital Pharma

Digital Lifescapes: SuperSpeed USB will Enable Digital Media ...
By David H. Deans
SuperSpeed USB will Enable Digital Media Transfer. As the number of consumer electronic (CE) devices and their capabilities continue to evolve and converge, many require significantly more communication bandwidth to provide the quality ...
Digital Lifescapes

Why is Google Blacked Out? - DMA Central - Digital Media Academy
By DMA Newswire
Google is just one of many companies against SOPA and PIPA - two bills that could put the internet on lockdown.
DMA Central

PGs in SELLL: Centre for Film & Digital Media Steering Group
By PG Blog
Centre for Film & Digital Media Steering Group. As you may be aware the Centre has a steering group that plans future events and activities. We do have some PGs already involved in the steering group but we would welcome additional PGs ...
PGs in SELLL

New dB TV from Vital Media Combines Live TV Programming with ...
By admin
18, 2012) – Digital signage innovator Vital Media® announces the launch of dB TV™ (www.whiletheywait.com/m/dbtv), the company's latest in-store digital media display solution designed to engage, entertain and inform customers at retail ...
Vital Media

Taking Politics Seriously: The Effect of Digital Media and Literacy ...
Digital Media Literacy Education and Online Civic and Political Participation: Joseph Kahne is the lead author of a newly published paper (International Journal ...
spotlight.macfound.org/.../taking-politics-seriously-the-effect-...

Full Disclosure: Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco Digital Media ...
However, because Cisco Show and Share relies on Cisco Digital Media Manager for authentication services, attackers who compromise the Cisco Digital Media ...
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2012/Jan/277

What's the big idea? Look inside ESPN's Digital Media 'Hackathon ...
For the second straight year, teams of programmers, engineers and designers from the Digital Media group took time out — that is, they added time to their ...
frontrow.espn.go.com/.../whats-the-big-idea-look-inside-espns...

MediaPost Publications Verizon Sets 'Unicast' Rollout, Streams VOD ...
Verizon Digital Media Services spent two years and $370 million to solve the problem of ... The Verizon Digital Media Services platform, designed to support and ...
www.mediapost.com/.../verizon-digital-media-plans-q3-vod-u...

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