Image via CrunchBase The UK / EU web is buzzing with the news that Youtube (Google) has started to block or remove UK music videos because they have not been able to strike a new music licensing deal with the PRS-For-Music, the UK rights society which represents the songwriters and the publishers. I...

Image via CrunchBase Read: E-Commerce News: E-Commerce: Amazon: Only Copyright Holders Can Unzip Kindle's Lips.This is an interesting debate that once again shows that many rights holders will need some serious hand-holding when it's about understanding new technological implementations. I t...

Read Zuck's post: Facebook | Governing the Facebook Service in an Open and Transparent Way.When Facebook changed their Terms of Use last week, making it look a lot more 'controlling', all hell broke loose.  Even in Switzerland (where I live), the national TV news reported on the up...

Image by christophercarfi via Flickr Chris 'LongTail & Free' Anderson has dished up another great op-ed in the WSJ . Note: this link keeps having problems... maybe try this one, instead, or this. Below are some of the best snippets - and my comments. Chris writes: "Gratis can be a g...

At its recent MacWorld conference, Apple made three key changes to its iTunes music services offering: DRM free distribution, wireless downloads and variable pricing. A year ago, iTunes looked like a business under pressure. But these changes make the mobile operators’ and Nokia’s “...

Last week the fifth Telco 2.0 Executive Brainstorm continued its theme of business model innovation at the intersection of telecoms, media and technology by welcoming back Will Page, Chief Economist at the MCPS PRS Alliance, a copyright collection society that represents over 50,000 songwriters and ...

Guest post from Mobile Enterprise CEO Tony Riley : The first Mobile Advertising and Marketing Awards Conference was held in London on 12th/13th March 2008. The event continued many of the themes from the GSMA’s CMO Forum and the Telco 2.0 program. It added its own unique sound bites enhancing ...

150 representatives from across the global mobile marketing value chain gathered for a brainstorm at The CMO [Chief Marketing Officers] Forum at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two and a bit weeks ago. The focus was “Mobile as a True Marketing Channel - Realising the Opportunity”....

Delighted that a recent metaphor developed in our TouchStone framework development work with Bacardi Global Brands’ Digital and Insight and Planning teams, is gathering currency amongst both friends and colleagues … If you watch this and then this first … 20th century media was abo...