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Monday, June 17, 2002
Photo Exchange to improve... what?
Photo industry rivals are teaming up on an initiative to establish what they hope will become the ATM-equivalent of a global digital photo printing network. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology]
A more useful apparatus seems to be Apple's iTools or similar applications that would allow users to create unique collections of photos and have them available in a variety of formats such as snapshots, albums, and yearbooks.
Fair Use -- Libraries and Authors vs. Big Publishing and the DMCA
[NYT] After essentially failing in the public marketplace, e-book companies like RosettaBooks, Ebrary, and NetLibrary have hit upon an idea -- sell books to libraries for sharing.Big publishers are trying desperately to stop any Napster-style swapping of their content, fearing they will soon be under siege like the music industry. Trouble is, Big Publishing has to deal with this well-established institution known as the public library -- with a long, lustrous history of sharing books with people.
And the courts are siding with the e-book companies. Last year Random House tried to claim that its publishing contracts covered any and all media for a particular work. RosettaBooks took issue with that stance in court, and won.
Sooner or later the music, broadcast, and publishing industries will get the message that copyright is not a permanent monopoly for protection of outmoded business models.
Follow the Money in e-Procurement
San Francisco-based print e-procurement firm httprint just secured $12 million in additional funding. There are only a handful of these firms left and studying what happens to them provides some insight into where the industry is going and how the major players are arming themselves. [More...]Learning Radio.Userland
Jon Udell's article on the Instant Outlining feature of Radio Userland talks about how it could replace e-mail and IM as a collaborative medium. He's been looking longer and harder than most for some sort of workable, collaborative communication. This is still too early "emdash" and too techie "emdash" for someone like me. But maybe he and Dave Winer are onto something here.
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