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Would you be interested in buying a “used digital object”? Amazon thinks that people will be, and it has just gotten a patent for such a secondary market.

DAM news has been slowing down over the past week, as DAMers anticipate and prep for the holidays. In this week’s digital asset management news, Cumulus fixes some bugs, copyright gets murky and WebDAM looks skyward. 

Actor and music lover Bruce Willis recently caused a media furore when it was thought he intended to take on Apple to win the right to leave his iTunes library in his will.

The explosion of digital content has turned "copyright" into a term we all need to understand, and if Bruce is struggling to make sense of it all then he isn’t alone.

What a DAM week it’s been. In digital asset management news, Quantum finds a NerVve, there’s another Razuna release, CMSWire contributors debate DAM News, a new eMam emerges, and orphaned works find a home.

Last April, we introduced you to BOLT, a new page-sharing service. For the last year, BOLT has been in private beta, where a select group of users have been experimenting, and refining the way we collect, share and save any webpage, image or file. Today, BOLT opens its platform to the general public.

Licensing content can be a headache, especially for authors and developers who wish to use other persons' or groups' work in their own. While photo-sharing sites have long since advocated the use of Creative Commons licenses, the concept is gaining ground in videos, and YouTube (news, site) is set to announce the integration of Creative Commons in videos and the cloud-based YouTube video editor.

In a repeat of 2010, when he killed the "Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act" (COICA), Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has singlehandedly essentially killed the "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011," or "PROTECT IP" bill, after it passed out of a Senate committee amidst a flurry of industry letters both for and against it.

Last year, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) put forth The "Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act" (COICA), which was purported to protect copyright holders from having their content stolen and propagated on the Internet, but which had a number of other provisions that could limit the use of the Internet. That bill was killed. So what do we have this year? "Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011," or "PROTECT IP" -- which, while it addresses some of the problems in last year's bill, adds some even worse ones, critics say.

After almost a year in private beta, BO.LT, a new page-sharing service, launches today. What’s a page-sharing service? Isn’t that what a hyperlink is for? Can’t we already share everything with those handy sharing buttons that are on almost every website? Calm down. We have answers.

There's no rest for the weary when it comes to web publishing. From Twitter to mobile news to YouTube, the news industry has many issues to consider when evaluating their presence in news media.

Let's Begin with Twitter. 

Many newspapers already have Twitter feeds with hundreds of thousands of followers. But they're only now just figuring out what it all means. Editor & Publisher recently reported about the ways newspapers are using Twitter to get news out and how they are using others' to get news in.

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.