actually it's - after a long time - fun again to screen the industrie and stock market chaps: how they deal, comment and react to the latest deals.

there are those, who are a bit slow and halt behind as bertelsmänner. the rumour tells: now they also wanna have something like social networking, video and text, not to be left behind | mcworld uk

there is the music industry who has the copyright/ip line to sniff: "warner music group" shares grew lately from $0.20 to $26.22." they changed their path by "going from litigation to innovation", rh writes. not just fixing a deal with google but also with

"muvee, a personal video-mixing company, allowing consumers to integrate copyrighted music video content and styles into their personal videos." | rh

and there are more in the music industry who seem to swallow the notion, that by running after drm its not them who will win ... nor the artist.

DRM, they say - Yahoo Music general manager David Goldberg and eMusic CEO David Packman- , simply forces consumers to buy hardware with proprietary technology that enriches software companies rather than artists or labels. | reuters

update: just seen: fuzo has several stories on the topic: umbruch, klagewelle, and also on second life