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published:
13-Mar-07
territories:
USA
categories:
Technology deal, Technical development
Overview of fingerprinting digital content
Online video sharing site GoFish, which recently acquired social networking site Bolt Media, has licensed copyright filtering and identification from Audible Magic for content uploaded to its site. Following the agreement, licensed material on GoFish will be monitored by Audible Magic to provide reports used in deciding revenue sharing between GoFish and its affiliates. In addition, Audible Magic's software will enable GoFish to streamline content management by matching uploaded content to its database of music tracks that are used in videos on the GoFish site. Other companies currently employing fingerprinting technology from Audible Magic include YouTube (after it abandoned plans for its own audiovisual identification product) and Myspace. More examples of audio recognition software companies are Gracenote and MusicIP.
Whilst Audible Magic started off as an audio fingerprinting solutions company, it is now also branching towards image identification, based on a technology dubbed Motional Media ID developed by David Stebbings, a former executive at the Recording Industry Association of America. MotionDSP is also looking at video recognition, and has released its Ikena Copyright image fingerprinting technology based on a patent-pending technology that claims to function for video clips and movies, regardless of changes to format, compression or aspect ratio.
Our take...
Premium content partners and advertisers are increasingly requesting that copyrighted video content on video sharing sites is protected, and if requested, removed. This is driving a move towards research into image fingerprinting to add to that in place for acoustic identification that is traditionally used in, for example, recognising copyrighted music files on peer-to-peer networks and soundtracks uploaded as part of video files on online video sites. However, image recognition is yet to become as refined as acoustic fingerprinting. It requires more complex identification processes as well as larger databases that can cope with cataloguing, for example, whole broadcast archives from content owners. Moreover, web users that edit video content at home, dubbing soundtracks, or cropping and reformatting files, make this watermarking process even more complex. Despite the difficulties in refining the technology, audiovisual fingerprinting technologies such as these are likely to be increasingly important for owners of video sharing sites in order to avoid legal action from content owners.
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Analyst, market intelligence & notices
AOL to acquire Bebo
published:
13-Mar-08
territories:
USA
categories:
Merger/takeover/investment deal
Reports
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Online Sports Videos: Rights, Revenues and Forecasts
This comprehensive report includes a full analysis of the consumer market for online sports video (OSV) in the USA, UK, France and Germany. It also includes all of Screen Digest's proprietary market data and forecasts for the take up of different types of online sports video offerings, the growth of consumer broadband and the online video boom, an introduction to sports media right and an overview of technology as well as the infrastructure in the OSV market.
published:
04-Feb-08
territories:
UK, USA, France, Germany
Arash Amel
Articles
Portable player markets mature
European, American and Japanese sales slow down as some markets show signs of reaching effective saturation
published:
17-Jun-08
territories:
France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK, USA - Nordic Region, North America, Western Europe
Sarah Johnson
FCC bonanza in spectrum auction
Contenders have bid $20bn for frequencies released bythe forthcoming analogue switch-off. Verizon bid the most money, AT&T secured the most licences
published:
23-Apr-08
territories:
USA - North America
Ronan de Renesse
Free online music as mainstream?
The record industry is exploring business models beyond retail, notably finding ways to make free downloads pay
published:
22-Feb-08
territories:
France, Germany, UK, USA - North America, Western Europe
Broadcasting on the Internet
A listing of the online video sites operated by broadcasters or which are displaying broadcast content.
published:
15-May-07
territories:
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA - Europe, Nordic Region, North America
Tim Westcott
Fibre optic roll-out in Europe
Various technology and business models are used in the European countries that have started to install fibre optic cable, but all are lagging behind the US
published:
19-Feb-07
territories:
Denmark, Italy, Norway, Sweden, UK, USA - Western Europe
categories:
Market data analysis
James Garlick
Rentmailer VoD offerings
Online DVD rental firms are building their portfolios with digital distribution in a strategy pioneered in the UK by DVD-by-post specialist LoveFilm and now spreading to Europe, the US and Australia
published:
25-Jan-07
territories:
Australia, France, Germany, UK, USA - Western Europe
Marie Bloomfield
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Western Europe
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