[opendtv] News: MOVIE STUDIOS CREATE RESEARCH LAB

  • From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:04:31 -0400

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MOVIE STUDIOS CREATE RESEARCH LAB
Unhappy with the pace at which consumer electronics firms and IT
researchers are developing tools to protect digital content, the six
major movie studios will launch a research lab to address their
concerns. Called Motion Picture Laboratories, or MovieLabs, it will
focus on technologies to protect content, with the expectation that
such research can also lead to new ways to deliver digital content,
ultimately expanding consumer access rather than limiting it, according
to James Gianopulos, cochairman of 20th Century Fox. Among the lab's
subject areas will be tools to prevent camcorders from working in
theaters, technology to monitor campus and corporate networks for
copyrighted material and to block it, and methods to prevent
unauthorized access to digital content that do not infringe on
legitimate uses. MovieLabs is modeled largely on CableLabs, which was
established in 1988 to address issues confronting the cable TV
industry. Efforts at CableLabs are credited with encouraging the
development and adoption of various technologies including fiber
optics, cable modems, and digital video.
New York Times, 18 September 2005 (registration req'd)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/19/business/19film.html
 
 
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