Via Edupage 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.