Can Metadata Save the Radio Star?

As the music industry grows more complex with the proliferation of free and paid streaming services the need for accurate and consistent metadata to properly track the usage of rec... More

New ‘Variety’ Summit to Tackle Data-Driven Storytelling, Marketing

For Variety’s first-ever Big Data Summit, one day just wouldn’t be enough to cover all the ways big data is impacting Hollywood. On Nov. 4-5 at the Intercontinental Hotel in C... More

Turning Data Into Metrics

Add this to the be-careful-what-you-wish-for file: After pleading for years for more and better data on cross-platform viewership the TV industry is about to get hit by waves of t... More

Court Ruling in Google Books A Win For Metadata Automation

The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday handed Google a major victory in its long-running legal fight with the Authors Guild over Google's massive book-scanning projec... More

C4 IDs: Internal Medicine for Enterprises

The second of three articles. The Cinema Content Creation Cloud (C4) is an asset identification framework developed by the Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) at USC, along with... More

C4 IDs: Agreement Without Communication

The unambiguous identification of digital assets has long challenged media and entertainment companies. And as new devices, platforms and business models create the need for new fo... More

Digimarc: The Barcode of Everything

For two decades now, Beaverton, Ore.-based Digimarc has been working toward one goal: be the barcode of everything. The digital watermarking technology provider enables the embed... More

Bob Lefsetz Added as Keynote to THE (Transforming Home Entertainment) Summit in LA, Sept 24

Outspoken music and media blogger Bob Lefsetz will be joining the stage as a keynote speaker during THE Summit on September 24th from 1 – 6 p.m. at the Luxe Sunset Blvd. Hotel in... More

Fair Use Ruling Could Boost Computer Learning

This week's landmark copyright ruling in the "Dancing Baby" video case was a set-back for the studios and record companies in their efforts to police the use of their works on YouT... More

Fighting For Control on the Set-Top

The Federal Communications Commission this week kicked off a proceeding that could have far-reaching implications for how pay-TV and over-the-top content is managed, protected and... More

Box, MESA to Host ‘Producing a Hit in the Cloud’ Webinar Sept. 2

By Chris Tribbey Last year the popular rock band Foo Fighters did something pretty unique. Visiting eight American cities (Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, N... More

Michael Wolff to Keynote HITS Broadcast IT Summit at NAB/CCW in NY, Nov. 11

NEW YORK — HITS, the media & entertainment IT association, will host its Second Annual HITS Broadcast IT Summit, at the NAB/CCW Convention at Jacob Javits Convention Center o... More

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