Content Management Matters ™

Movies and TV survived the VHS scare. Whether they'll completely survive digital media piracy is a different story -- and it isn't just film and TV that's in trouble; it's music and publishing, too.

In response to this concern, and because somebody out there still thinks it's possible to stake a claim to digital media, Autonomy brings us Virage ACID, automated copyright infringement detection.

Using components of its Media Asset Management and Digital Asset Management offerings, global consulting firm BearingPoint yields a media content solution that assists in solving two big content problems: managing complex compensation models, and validating copyright.

At present there are already prêt-a-porter copyright solutions in place for fluid digital content. Creative Commons, for example, utilizes a global copyright protection model tailored specifically for information-sharing in the Web 2.0 frontier.

When a large corporate body and a suburban teen can use the same platform to air a great idea or persuasive stream of thought, what protects one or the other from negligence of source citation or outright content theft? It's harder to track information back to its origins when the origin itself can be added, edited, published and deleted on a whim.

Noting that the corporate machine might be slightly better able than the teen at navigating the complex world of content rights, Creative Commons came up with a solution as simple and fluid as the flow of information it is often meant to protect. And recently, the 3.0 version of said solution has been unwrapped.