Movieclips.com confirmed that it has raised an additional $6 million in venture funding. While its founders declined to discuss what the funding is for or who was part of the most recent investment, they said a big announcement was in the works. Read More »
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Two German music fans were fed up with geo-blocking on YouTube, which has been preventing them from accessing music videos from major-label artists. So they turned the tables and started to block employees of major music labels from accessing popular blogs and other websites. Read More »
Hollywood studios together with cable operators launched an ad campaign today aimed at educating consumers about on-demand video rentals available directly through their local cable providers — and making up for the shortfall generated by declining DVD sales. 20th Century Fox, Focus Features,… Read More »
Movieclips.com, the online video site for distributing short-form clips of Hollywood movies, has expanded the availability of its library, opening up the site for viewing worldwide. The company has also released an API for others to develop applications that take advantage of… Read More »
A group of Hollywood studios, including Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Warner Bros and others in September 2006 brought a case against Canada-based torrent search site isoHunt and its owner, Gary Fung, alleging that they enabled and encouraged wide-scale copyright infringement. Well, earlier this week, a… Read More »
Vizu Raises $6.75 M in Financing for Online Brand Ad Metrics; funding round was led by iNovia Captial and Greycroft Partners, with participation from Draper Fisher Jurventson and Esther Dyson. (Press release) Universal to Sell “Flipper Discs”; starting with the Bourne Identity… Read More »
Vevo, the forthcoming music video site from Universal and Sony Music and powered by YouTube, announced via Twitter this afternoon that it is officially launching on Tues. Dec. 8th. Here’s a screen grab of the Tweet: The only thing missing from Vevo’s Twitter… Read More »
Though two of its three claims were dismissed by a U.S. District Court judge yesterday, Redbox’s lawsuit against Universal Studios Home Entertainment will proceed. In his opinion, Judge Robert Kugler wrote: “The court is convinced that plantiff [sic] sufficiently pleaded that Universal has induced or otherwise… Read More »
Redbox, the company that rents DVDs through kiosks for $1 a day, has had a polarizing effect on the movie industry. Lines are being drawn and sides taken as a battle erupts over the perceived value of movie content. The latest salvo in this brawl happened… Read More »
Univision Wins Case Against Televisa; court ruling prohibits Televisa from webcasting shows that have already been licensed to Univision. (paidContent) The American Film Institute Launches Video Portal; site includes material collected over the last 42 years by the AFI. (ZatzNotFunny!) Anthony E. Zuiker on His New… Read More »
As we’ve been expecting, Disney said today that it will become the fourth equity owner of Hulu and provide its programming to the premium content portal. Disney joins NBC Universal, News Corp. and Providence Equity Partners as a partner in the joint venture. From… Read More »
Italian Judge Gives Google Case the Green Light; suit against Google over a video of a disabled teen being bullied not thrown out; next step is a procedural hearing on March 17. (USA Today) See our previous coverage. So Far, So Good for Early DTV… Read More »
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