[AMIA-L] News Items of Note

[John Tariot <jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings-

Just a quick note about new updates available at
www.movingimagegroup.com/news/ on some stories that have been under
discussion on AMIA-L, notably the Robert Mitchum copyright case (and
others- see below).

All the best-

   John Tariot
   Moving Image Group
   movingimagegroup.com/603-643-1531




AP: Supreme Court Takes on Copyright Case

WASHINGTON - April 2, 2003 - Supreme Court justices, looking for a
solution to a Hollywood dispute, were told Wednesday to go to the
videotape. Justices were urged to watch a seven-hour World War II
documentary in settling the fight between 20th Century Fox, which let
a copyright lapse, and a young video company that reused an old war
documentary.

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Law.com: TV Networks Get Attorney Fees in Copyright Suit

A federal judge has awarded attorney fees to three major television
news networks for having to defend against an "objectively
unreasonable" copyright lawsuit that challenged obituaries for movie
star Robert Mitchum. The fee ruling from Southern District of New
York Judge Barbara S. Jones comes nearly seven months after the judge
granted summary judgment to CNN, ABC and CBS in a copyright
infringement claim that sought fees from the networks for using
scenes from "The Story of G.I. Joe" in their coverage of Mitchum's
death in July 1997.

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Forbes: A Patent On Porn

NEW YORK - April 2, 2003-- It must have seemed like easy pickings at
the time. Acacia Research says it owns five U.S. and 17 international
patents covering the transmission and receipt of digital audio and
digital video content, otherwise known as streaming media. But before
attempting to enforce its patents with big outfits such as Yahoo! and
The Walt Disney Co., Acacia instead chose to go after the smallish
adult Internet sites that peddle videos of women (and men) doffing
their clothes--and much more.

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Artesia Technologies and Telestream Partner With BBDO New York to
Help Agency Go Tapeless

ROCKVILLE, MD and NEVADA CITY, CA--Apr 2, 2003 -- Artesia
Technologies, the leader in enterprise digital asset management
solutions, and Telestream, the leader in automated media encoding and
delivery solutions, jointly announced today that they have partnered
with BBDO New York, the flagship office of the world's third largest
global advertising agency network, to implement a major new digital
media management and workflow automation system.

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Getty Images and Agence France-Presse (AFP) Enter Into Partnership to
Increase Breadth, Depth, Reach and Quality

SEATTLE and PARIS, April 1-- Getty Images, the world's leading
imagery company, and Agence France-Presse, the worldwide multilingual
and multimedia news agency, today announced a strategic relationship
to provide customers around the world with a comprehensive news
photography service that leverages the complementary strengths and
experiences of the two partners. The goal of the agreement is to
increase the breadth, depth, reach and quality of services provided
to their customers. The agreement is pending regulatory approval and
is expected to be implemented during the second quarter of this year.

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Internet Streaming Media Alliance -- ISMA -- Releases Content
Protection Specification for Peer Review

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--March 31, 2003--The Internet Streaming Media
Alliance (ISMA), a global alliance of nearly 40 industry leaders in
content management, distribution infrastructure, and streaming media,
today announced that it is releasing for peer review a new content
protection specification which will serve as the technical foundation
for the secure delivery of streaming and download media content.

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Salt Lake Tribune: TiVo Subscribers Creating Archives of Wartime
Television Footage

DETROIT --March 31, 2003--TiVo Inc. subscribers are using the video
recorder that can pause and replay live television programs to
capture for posterity news footage of the Iraqi war, a user survey
found. About a third of 1,217 TiVo users said they used their sets to
digitally archive some coverage of the invasion of Iraq during the
first week of the war, said CNW Marketing/Research President Art
Spinella, who surveys TiVo users about their viewing habits.

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Hollywood Reporter: Nat'l Geo signs two major deals

CANNES --March 27, 2003-- National Geographic has inked two major
deals at MIPTV aimed at exploiting its film archive assets -- one
involving a reciprocal partnership with Canada's National Film Board
and the other a content agreement with Associated Press Television
News.

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Videography: Film Libraries Form Stock Image Licensors Group

Mar 26, 2003--Film and video libraries from leading media
organizations have formed a non-profit trade organization called
ACSIL, the Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors, to raise
the profile of stock footage and develop new market opportunities.

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Guardian UK: For sale: Police camera action

March 26, 2003--The Metropolitan police is not the sort of name you
expect to see exhibiting at a television programming market in
Cannes. But after years of virtually giving its archive footage away
to TV shows such as Police Camera Action, the Met has decided it is
time to cut out the middle man and sell the material to broadcasters.

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WebWare Introduces ActiveMedia Access Digital Asset Management Software

NEW YORK, March 25-- WebWare Corporation, a leading digital asset
management software company, today announced the introduction of
WebWare ActiveMedia Access(TM) -- the first enterprise-ready digital
asset management system for under $50,000.


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