The Internet is not a magical device that makes everything free, copyright is not simply a legal mechanism to make creators get out of bed, creative output is not an undifferentiated mass of content and there are many more variables than just piracy that affect content production.

A refrain of the anti-intellectual property forces is that content producers need to come up with new business models, and then all will be well and we troglodyte property rights advocates can return to our caves. Well, here is an interesting example. An article on energy in The Globe and Mail just caught my eye, [...]

In November of 2009, video views online exceeded 31 billion. As TDG describes it, this “New Territory” is bringing everyone in the content delivery ecosystem to the table. The question at this point will be what model proves successful in profiting from online video.

Chairman Genachowski gets the cold shoulder?

[Cross-posted from the AEI  Enterprise Blog] The conclusion, one way or the other, of the storm called the Durbin Amendment, which would enable price controls on some of the fees involved in processing debit card transactions, will come next Tuesday during the House-Senate Conference on financial reform. Fifteen market-oriented groups have joined the opposition with [...]

Net Neutrality, Investment & Jobs: Assessing the Potential Impacts of the FCC’s Proposed Net Neutrality Rules on the Broadband Ecosystem Charles M. Davidson, Bret T. Swanson* New York Law School Advance Communications Law & Policy Institute June 2010 Authors Davidson and Swanson review the fall out of FCC regulation on the broadband ecosystem.  They point [...]

Congress has told the FCC no on reclassification and the courts have told the FCC that they cannot exceed their congressional authority, but the current FCC seems determined to shatter the congressional tether based on a manufactured crisis.

Perhaps to stem the tide competing cloud based video editors, Google has launched there own online YouTube video editor. From my initial impression of the service, it seems to be usable as a quick and dirty editor but it’s no substitute for even the most basic locally run editor.

Earlier this week I wrote that “Mobile networks aren’t for Video on Demand” which was read by many visitors. The fundamental problem with mobile VoD is that each video user can ask for more network capacity than all of the other phone and web users combined. But this isn’t the end of the road for video on mobile networks and the problems can be overcome with IP multicasting.

There is a report from David Hatch at CongressDaily that indicates that several industry groups have compromised and are pushing for some light touch legislation that may prevent Internet Service Providers from prioritizing content but will prevent the FCC from being able to pursue it’s “Third Way” option to reclassify the Internet as a “telecommunications service” under Title II.