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By Bill Rosenblatt January 8, 2009 Starting today, my writings on digital rights technologies and related issues are moving from drmwatch.com to a new blog, Copyright and Technology (copyrightandtechnology.com). Please go have a look. If you subscribe to DRM Watch by email or RSS feed, you can click to subscribe to Copyright and Technology on the site. The transition from DRM Watch to Copyright and Technology reflects the way the digital copyright industry has evolved since I started DRM Watch seven years ago. The meaning of the term “DRM” has devolved to its most narrow meaning and no longer reflects many of the recent developments around technology used to manage copyrighted works in the digital age. Hence, the name “DRM Watch” no longer accurately describes the subject matter covered on the site. As those of you who have followed this space over the years may have noticed, the material here has broadened and evolved. This is reflected the work that I do in my “real job” as president of GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies, the consulting firm that I have run for over eight years – in areas tangential to DRM such as fingerprinting, watermarking, rights licensing, public copyright policy, law, and other areas of digital content strategy. Accordingly, Copyright and Technology will cover a broader range of subject matter. In October 2001 when I started the site, there were hardly any blogs (Jupitermedia began publishing it two years later). But now I feel that the blog format affords flexibility and openness that the more traditional web publishing format does not. My occasional guest authors will also post articles on Copyright and Technology when opportunities arise. My latest articles, on Apple’s removal of DRM from iTunes music files and Part 4 of my 2008 year-end review, are now up on Copyright and Technology. Jupitermedia will continue to manage the drmwatch.com domain and host archived articles, so I encourage you to visit the site when you want to find information about past developments in the field – as well as, of course, the news and information on a wide variety of IT topics for which Jupitermedia is justly renowned. I would like to thank Jupitermedia for a great partnership over the past five years, and I hope that you will continue to visit Jupitermedia’s sites as well as follow me – and my guest authors – to Copyright and Technology. The industry continues to evolve rapidly and unpredictably; I think we all agree that there’s a need for analysis that cuts through the hype, explains developments, and places them in their larger context. My goal is that Copyright and Technology will continue to fill that role.
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