Apple's Steve Jobs has called for the record industry to abandon digital rights management for all online music stores. He has posted a statement on the Apple web site which argues the case for abandoning a system about which Apple often takes flack from consumers. The main complaints are its restrictions on 5 copies and [...]
Read an interesting article in Fortune magazine which has just come out explaining the phenomenon of 2nd life. While investors are obviously looking for the next MySpace or YouTube, the article profiles how IBM are using 2nd life as a business tool and see great potential in this space. My first introduction to 2nd life [...]
A few questions our film and TV industry are asking themselves at the moment: Why are Australian films not hitting the mark with the under 40's demographic? Should we be making films for our own market or aiming at international sales? Does distribution of films over the internet risk losing income through piracy? Surely asking [...]
While we’re on animation, an article in Animation World Magazine (AWN) offers some interesting perspectives on where animation execs see the future of the business. Needless to say, it’s distribution via portable media, vodcasts and broadband portals that are providing new opportunities for small independents to break into the market. This is a quote from [...]
We've been running a lot of cross media orientation workshops lately, most recently for the Tasmanian creative media industry in the lead up to our LAMP lab which will be run there in November. The response has been very positive, particularly when we have got people actively participating and pitching spontaneous cross media project ideas. [...]
A series of presentations on the Digital Content Industry Action Agenda (DCIAA) have been held around Australia in the last two weeks. The DCIAA is an industry led initiative aimed at developing Australia’s nascent digital content industries. Tom Kennedy (Media Zoo, AFC Commissioner] led an industry leaders group whose report ‘Unlocking the Potential’ was released [...]