Comments on: Films on iTunes in the UK! http://www.richard-marshall.com/wordpress/2008/06/04/films-on-itunes-in-the-uk/ Life on the last frontier - mobile app development. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:26:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: cassiel http://www.richard-marshall.com/wordpress/2008/06/04/films-on-itunes-in-the-uk/#comment-9017 cassiel Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:17:27 +0000 http://www.richard-marshall.com/wordpress/2008/06/04/films-on-itunes-in-the-uk/#comment-9017 Rights management, yep - and, for music, performing rights. Witness the closedown of US Internet radio stations as the US government attempts to retrospectively tax them for PRO fees - and artists signed up with PROs cannot even waive their rights to their own material for Internet broadcast. If podcasts come into the same radar, we've had it. But I digress... you're talking about films, with their own wagonload of legal machinery. Rights management, yep - and, for music, performing rights. Witness the closedown of US Internet radio stations as the US government attempts to retrospectively tax them for PRO fees - and artists signed up with PROs cannot even waive their rights to their own material for Internet broadcast.

If podcasts come into the same radar, we’ve had it.

But I digress… you’re talking about films, with their own wagonload of legal machinery.

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