At WWDC this year, Apple announced it is bringing video and music sharing to FaceTime in a new feature called SharePlay. People will be able to watch or listen to content over FaceTime with everyone in the call. It works by casting the content to an Apple TV device or using a picture-in-picture function on iOS devices.
Source: Apple SharePlay Brings Video & Music to FaceTime – How It Works
Europe is working hard to modernize copyright law and regulations. The implementation of the Copyright Directive is nearing its conclusion. At the same time, copyright takedown and liability regulations are further strengthened by the proposed Digital Services Act. Or are they? An MPA-controlled ‘hacker’ shows that, for now, pirates and cybercriminals have little to fear.
Source: MPA “Hacker” Shows that Pirates Don’t Fear EU’s Copyright Takedown Plans * TorrentFreak
From data collection to rights management and everything in between, there are endless moving parts involved with music distribution in today’s streaming-dominated landscape. Now, SonoSuite is quietly equipping indie record labels, aggregators, management and promotion agencies, and even other distributors with the tools to roll their own distribution services.
Source: SonoSuite Is Quietly Claiming the White Label Distribution Space
Decentralized ownership registries helped enable digital art’s NFT boom of the past year. Next, blockchain, the distributed ledger technology, will underpin fanbases and the way artists build careers, teams, and engage with industry infrastructure. Can you put a fanbase on the blockchain? Here’s what it could look like.
Source: The Decentralized Autonomous “1,000 True Fan” Organisation
Few musicians over the past decade have worked as closely with emerging technologies as Holly Herndon. Her latest experiment is a series of digital animations created with her partner, Mat Dryhurst, using generative software called Clip. An NFT tied to the first piece, “Crossing the Interface (DAO) I,” just sold for 13.0768 ETH (worth $36,466.75) on Foundation’s crypto art marketplace.
Source: Experimental Composer Holly Herndon Sells ‘DAO’ NFT for $36,000 – Decrypt
Glastonbury’s Live at Worthy Farm event included lots of great artists and a special appearance by The Smile, the new band including Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood. Lots of people, who had bought tickets, couldn’t make it into the livestream. The problem was that lots of the unique ticket codes were flagged as invalid. After almost two hours the solution was to remove the paywall to the event.
Source: Livestream tech breaking down
On April 15th, Hollywood writer and director Kevin Smith announced that he was putting an unreleased film of his, “Killroy was Here” up for sale via NFT (i.e. ‘Non-Fungible Token’). He’s auctioning this work off ‘lock, stock and barrel’ – that is, all the digital files of which the film is comprised, and without retaining any copies or backups.
The broadcaster announced at its upfront presentation on Monday that Rick and Morty creator Dan Harmon’s new animated series, Krapopolis, will have groundbreaking technology involved in its distribution and marketing. Krapopolis is going to be “the first-ever animated series curated entirely on the Blockchain” and mark the broadcast network’s debut move into the NFT business. Fox says it is also debuting a new NFT company called Blockchain Creative Labs.
Source: Dan Harmon Making First Blockchain Animated Series as Fox Embraces Crypto
The entertainment company is involved in various enforcement initiatives and a few days ago, added a new anti-piracy patent to its arsenal. With a blockchain-based distribution system, Disney hopes to make it harder for pirates to intercept films being distributed to movie theaters.
Source: Disney Patents Blockchain-Based Movie Distribution System to Stop Pirates * TorrentFreak
Google transparently reports the billions of copyright takedown requests it receives for its search engine. However, finding out how many videos are flagged and removed on YouTube appears to be quite the challenge. We gave it a go nonetheless and can also conclude that the Content ID system is a cash cow.
Source: YouTube’s Takedown Numbers are a Mystery, But Content-ID is a ‘Cash Cow’ * TorrentFreak