Tag: FOX

Despite having signed off on User Generated Content (UGC) principles, which endorse fair use of copyrighted content in protected free speech, several networks have sent takedown requests to YouTube over politically-themed videos that use short clips from copyrighted broadcasts. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) earlier this week sent letters not only to YouTube, but also the networks ...

You might remember Hulu, the video streaming service backed by most of the major networks, being touted as the legitimate answer to watching episodes of your favorite shows (in 6 pieces) on YouTube. Now in some sort of delicious, cosmic irony, Hulu has dragged the networks back to YouTube where it has created its own channel and is hosting clips from shows from Fox and NBC that can be seen in ...

Those long-rumored movie rentals are finally coming to iTunes. Reports have been coming in that Twentieth Century Fox and Apple just signed a deal that will put content from the movie studio up in the online media outlet for rent (in addition to straight out purchase). Details are slim at the moment, but it is reported that Fox has been granted some flexibility with pricing, meaning newer films ...

News Corp has its hands in just about everything these days, it owns the Fox film and TV outlets, including Fox News and National Geographic, it has significant holdings in DirecTV and the UK's SKY TV, an absurd number of newspapers including the New York Post, and soon, the prestigious Wall Street Journal, mega publisher Harper Collins. It also owns popular online destinations Rotten Tomatoes, ...

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) today, several major media and technology companies are joining forces to form the Masters of Evil! Wait... sorry, they are just joining forces to form an anti-piracy ring, no plots for world domination... yet. This coalition of super companies will be working together on copyright-related issues, including video piracy and ...

Fox just inked a deal with Apple that will let you download its repeats over iTunes for free. You'll be able to check out back episodes of shows like 'Prison Break' and 'Bones' poised for season debuts. Fox's strategy is that viewers are more likely to tune in to current episodes on TV if they have last season's (or last week's) cliffhanger fresh in their minds. This comes not long after NBC ...

Wikipedia is one of the most impressive social experiments to come out of the Internet, but there will always be a cloud of doubt hanging over the user-generated-encyclopedia site in the minds of those who don't trust its open nature. Anyone can log in and make changes and, of course, everyone does, including employees of Fox News, who saw fit to make a slight change to the entry about the ...

The marketing blitz and fan hysteria surrounding the new Simpson's movie is gearing up to go mobile. News Corp., Rupert Murdoch's media juggernaut, after pushing Simpson's paraphernalia via 7-11 (pictured above) is enlisting Jamba, a mobile entertainment company it aquired, to push ring-tones, screen savers, wall papers, and even a game for cell phones. These are not half-assed recycled bits ...

In a bid to better compete with YouTube for the eyes and ears of Web users (but not in a creepy, serial killer kind of way), MySpace is re-launching the less than impressive video component of its site. Tomorrow, MySpace Videos will be torn down like the Stardust Casino to be resurrected as a separate site, MySpace TV. The most important change, other than the new URL, is that you no longer ...