IP Democracy: Hollywood Establishes MovieLabs for Anti-Copying Development

Today’s New York Times has a piece about how the six major Hollywood studios are ponying up $30 million to fund an R&D consortium called MovieLabs, a venture modeled after the cable industry’s successful CableLabs. More modest than CableLabs, MovieLabs will, at least for now, strictly focus on how to prevent copying of films.

Much mockery of the effort is starting to appear in the blogosphere. Here’s a sample snapshot from Techdirt:

The industry would be much better off taking that $30 million and spending it on creative new ways to embrace what people are doing with their content. Of course, for the movie industry, $30 million is a tiny fraction of a bad movie — so they’ll just let it go to waste on this new project and not think too much about it.

Posted by Cynthia Brumfield on September 19, 2005 10:25 AM to IP Democracy