MySpace Offers Record Labels Tools To Remove Copyrighted Works

MySpace is now offering free software tools to let media companies block the uploading of unauthorized video clips, expanding on an earlier program to block unauthorized music. MySpace, owned by News, Corp., has licensed audio fingerprinting technology developed by Audible Magic, which helps identify the digital audio signature in a video file. Videos whose audio tracks match those in its database will be blocked. MySpace said it was...

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MTV Braces For Restructuring

According to preliminary reporsts, Viacom is about to clean house at MTV with hundreds of employees expected to be given the boot. MTV, Comedy Central, Spike, and Nickelodeon will be the focus of the restructuring which often comes after a top exec is shown the door. In fact, many at Viacom’s subsidiaries have been waiting for a shake-up after the abrupt firing of longtime executive Tom Freston, who was jettisoned from a...

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