Media Industries Project - Carsey Wolf Center

Former children's laureates Quentin Blake, Anne Fine and Jacqueline Wilson, bestselling authors Jeffrey Archer and Louis de Bernières and critical favourites Thomas Pynchon, Zadie Smith and Jeanette Winterson have all opted out of the controversial Google book settlement, court documents have revealed. Authors who did not wish their books to be part of Google's revised settlement needed to opt out before 28 January, in advance of last week's ruling from Judge Denny Chin over whether to allow Google to go ahead with its divisive plans to digitise millions of books. The judge ended up delaying his ruling, after receiving more than 500 written submissions, but court documents related to the case show that more than 6,500 authors, publishers and literary agents have opted out of the settlement.

Wedbush Morgan analyst says he'd be "very surprised" if it was over $79.

Activision CEO Bobby Kotick gave a speech at the DICE summit, and during the presentation he seemed both unrehearsed and surprisingly human.

Ubisoft recently detailed the specifics of their new DRM scheme, which requires a constant internet connection to merely be able to play the games.

Viacom is turning the tide after slow growth during the recession. They have implemented cost cutting measures to grow profits with dvd sales and high ratings from quality, thought provoking programs like "Jersey Shore".

News Corp is hungry to get into the middle east advertising/media markets because of the young audiences and emerging growth in their home markets. They are attempting to buy a share in Rotana Media.

Comcast is working diligently to make sure you see video advertisements when accessing copyrighted programs on the internet.

2 large broadband providers are bringing out all the stops to fight open-Internet rules proposed by the FCC Chairman. It would unravel one of Genachowski's key initiatives.

The Department of Justice and the FCC are performing antitrust reviews of the proposed Comcast/NBC merger.

If an exemption to the DMCA is granted for jailbreaking iPhones, it likely won't apply to the iPad.

Google will have users who have already started Buzz confirm their privacy options in wake of the privacy kerfuffle.

Article predicts a steady increase in spending on digital advertisers by local companies through 2014, as well as a decrease in money spent on traditional ads.

Google recently acquired one of the largest mobile ad companies, perhaps indicating that the nascent industry could take off in the next few years.

The FCC is holding a Mrch 4 workshop to examine the future to media industries.

An interactive timeline of the AOL Time Warner merger, and the subsequent fallout.

A decade ago, America Online merged with Time Warner in a deal valued at $350 billion, which is still the largest merger in American business history. But the trail of despair in subsequent years produced a deal now regarded by many as a colossal mistake.

Many broadcast networks are pushing cable TV providers to pay for transmission fees for NFL games.

David Moore discusses the issues concerning original premium content and the internet, and suggests a pay model as a means of solving the problem

Discusses how the Kindle and iPad will impact the quality of book content by changing existing business models in the publishing industry.

Senator Al Franken uses his experience in the industry to speak candidly about his concerns with the NBC-Comcast Merger. Interesting to have an industry insider in govertment that is not interested in the same outcomes has the executives.