In an bizarre policy flip-flop, a group of more than 160 House Republicans appeared to endorse extensive digital copyright reform on Friday, then disavowed its position the next day.
The House Republican Study Committee, an influential collection of conservatives that tends to pull the House leadership to the right, published a set of recommendations that could have been penned by Larry Lessig and the Electronic Frontier Foundation: expanded fair use rights, lower penalties for "willful" infringement, and dramatically abbreviated copyright terms.
It was, for a policy brief, a bit incendiary; one section said "copyright violates nearly every tenet of laissez-faire capitalism," and another warns that today's legal system "is seen by many as a form of corporate welfare that hurts innovation and hurts the consumer."
Nearly half of all internet users are unsure whether the content they are accessing is legal, according to new research commissioned by Ofcom.
The most common reasons cited for accessing content illegally were because it is free (54%), convenient (48%) and quick (44%). Around a quarter (26%) of infringers said it allows them to try before they buy.
StoViz uses image analysis to isolate actors' faces and the backgrounds in certain scenes. The technology also analyzes audio to find key words that help compile similar scenes and stories.
Despite his dismissal of cord-cutting, Bewkes did acknowledge the emergence of “cord nevers,” which are younger people who never acquire cable in the first place. For them, he said it’s not a question of money — “they can afford three Starbucks a day” — but rather different habits and expectations. Bewkes pointed out that the “cord nevers” are not receiving the best content (it will be interesting to see if this argument one day sways them into signing up).
Google is venturing again into the realm of augmented reality with its reveal of a newmobile game called Ingress. Though the multiplayer game is currently in closed beta, Google has built a marketing campaign around it that entices players who were drawn to TV shows like Fringe and Lost.
3net Studios' diverse lineup includes live-action and animated projects such as SPACE, the first series to be produced in what the company calls "TotalD" (native 3D 4K, 2D 4K, 3D 2K and both 3D/2D HD formats), as well as MARKSMEN, the world's first 3D motion comic series for television. Additional 3D projects include the documentary series FROZEN IN TIME: OUR HISTORY IN 3D; the live-action special WINGSUIT WARRIOR: JEB CORLISS VS. THE WORLD; and the travelogue series DAYDREAM.
Founder and CEO of Domo, declared to our UCLA MBA Digital class recently that there isn’t a single CEO who isn’t thinking about data.
How are they thinking about?
How to harness it.
How to interpret it.
How to turn it into a force that propels and sustains their competitive advantage.
And, if they don’t accomplish the above, how will they explain the enormous investment absent an ROI to their investors, Board of Directors and other stakeholders.
So, lots of thinking going on and probably very little sleeping by these CEOs. After all, data never sleeps.
One solution to turn your data into dollars that is particularly attractive is to find the narrative the numbers are telling you and share that story up and down your food chain.
[Philip Lelyveld comment: this ability to slightly change position allows Lytro to also create 3D images.]
Photos taken with Lytro's light field camera (aka living pictures) were already more interactive than a regular snapshot, letting you endlessly refocus the images by clicking on different parts of them. An upcoming software update takes the interactivity up a notch, letting you change the perspective of your shots, too.
The free Lytro Desktop software update, which rolls out December 4, adds this Perspective Shift feature, enabling Lytro users to slightly change the point of view of a living picture by clicking and dragging them in any direction.
The Knowledge Graph previously used for Web search allows Google's TV software to take spoken commands.
Users can now simply say “CNN” to switch the channel, or call out the name of a show to be shown all ways it can be watched either live or via Internet streaming. Questions such as “how to tie a bowtie” might return relevant YouTube videos or web search results, depending on which is the better match.
In an bizarre policy flip-flop, a group of more than 160 House Republicans appeared to endorse extensive digital copyright reform on Friday, then disavowed its position the next day.