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Video game giant Electronic Arts said today that it expects its quarterly and fiscal year revenues and earnings to be below its previous financial guidance.

"EA isn't making a version of its NCAA Basketball video game series in time for the March Madness college basketball tournament. That's truly unheard of for EA Sports, which has released a game every year since 2003."

Electronic Arts will be moving away from distributing externally-developed games to focus more on its internal titles, which can generate higher margins, the company said Monday, and it plans to keep its headcount steady through its upcoming fiscal year.

Electronic Arts saw its fiscal third quarter revenue decline year over year, but at the same time shrunk its net loss from $641 million to $82 million, while reaching a company high for digital revenue.

New Documentary about sampling, music, and copyright. Copyright Criminals looks at the creative and monetary debates over musical sampling, mashing up music videos, studio visits, history, and talking heads including George Clinton and De La Soul. The documentary on beat mining rounds up more issues than a town hall meeting, poring over everything from the best props for a sampled artist, to the basic merits and methods of the omnivorous art. The tone leans toward pro, with persuasive soundbites that liken sampling to archeology (the listener digs through the aural layers) and the democratic fact that "all these legendary musicians are in my band." As Picasso once said: good artists borrow, great artists steal.

ubroadcast, inc. (UBCI 0.03, +0.00, +3.85%) , a leader in Internet Broadcasting, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Alexandria, VA-based iVu Media Corp., the developer of a state-of-the-art Video Content Management (VCM) system that works in tandem with a High Definition Playback technology. iVu Media's clients include Sony, Ford and Honda. For 2009, iVu Media had revenues of less than $500,000.

A judge revealed in a hearing that a criminal investigation was pending against the artist Shepard Fairey in connection with his use of an Associated Press photograph of Barack Obama, a lawyer involved in the case said

Should fashion designs be copyrighted? Books, music, film, and art are protected by copyright law,'' Suk says one afternoon in her law school office. "But fashion is not. I wanted to question all of that. Lots of people take for granted that fashion is an area where creativity is involved, and they also overlook the fact that there is no protection for designers.

Article providing an analysis of the collapse of Air America, and what that means for progressive talk radio.

Analysts are changing their forecasts on the growth of the in-game advertising industry. 

Broadcast TV is no longer big business

CBS launches movie slate. Aims for genres big studios have abandoned.