Remember Viacom suing YouTube and Google for one BILLION dollars eons ago? That's still going on! And while a judge ruled yesterday that while Google doesn't have to reveal its secret search sauce to the multimedia giantface, he did grant Viacom's request for YouTube to turn over records of "every v...

(Washington, DC) Democratic FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein said tonight that although the Internet has ushered in an era of video innovation, video content from traditional TV and movie suppliers still draws the biggest crowds...even on the Internet. "People like high quality video," Adelstein ...

My project this weekend was to take a look at the alpha version of a new online video venture backed by VON pioneer Jeff Pulver. It's PrimeTimeRewind and it's a one-stop shop for catching up on all the major network prime time TV shows (and a growing number of top cable networks, such as TNT and USA...

Like most people who blog on a more or less regular basis, my blogging has taken a back seat lately to other projects. One project that fits right in with IP Democracy is the Internet Video Policy Symposium, which my company is hosting in conjunction with Reed Business. This is an experiment for bot...

Online video is changing the way we communicate. It’s not just YouTube or Hulu. We know essentially have “video phones” like the ones we saw on sci-fli flicks back in the 1960’s. This is an evolution that I be you’ll be taking part in within three years. I hardly ever u...

Honestly, if we hadn't been tipped to this, we probably would've been none the wiser—same as pretty much everybody else on the planet apparently—but it looks like Wal-Mart's video download store caught pneumonia and died on Dec. 21. The big question for those of you who bravely bought in...

Although it may seem that Hollywood has the upper-hand in the stalled contract talks with the Writers Guild, the writers have a lot more power than the studios think. The rise of the broadband Internet has given creative talent freedom to forge ahead on their own. This LA Times' piece today says tha...