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It's always heartening to come across new ideas for ways to make creations more widely available to the public while allowing artist...

One of the defining characteristics of the digital world -- and one of the problems for copyright law, which was conceived in an analog ag...

" The Artist " may have won several Golden Globes, but there's at least one person who apparently hates the film because of s...

I've noted elsewhere that there is a major piece of FUD being put about by content producers: that piracy causes massive damage to a co...

It began, perhaps, with SCO's insane attempt to obtain money from IBM and others for alleged infringements of its code. It proceeded w...

Open source software is obviously extremely interesting to companies from a utilitarian viewpoint: it means they can reduce costs and – more...

On the one hand, we have a bunch of people I've never heard of whingeing in the Times : We are very concerned that the successes of the...

One of the many flashes of insight that the Asus Eee PC has provided me with is that DVDs are dead. The Eee PC has no CD/DVD drive, but let...

This is what the film industry *really* makes its money from: new research suggests that the presence of other people may enhance our movie...

In a move that seems like a great model of public and private cooperation, the National Archives and Amazon.com have reached a pact under wh...

If you believe, as I do, that there is a general convergence between films, virtual worlds and gaming, then it makes sense to nurture gaming...

A little while back I pointed out at some length how flimsy was the logic found in a white paper that claimed Microsoft's Vista would b...

I wouldn't normally write about software designed for the world of film and TV industries, but this seems pretty noteworthy. Celtx (pr...

I'm not keen on the term 'pirates' when applied to people who copy content; its one of those blatant attempts to pre-empt the de...

There's an interesting discussion going on about the cost of film-making - and whether we are likely to see huge falls from the exorbit...