Collective Blanket Licensing (CBL) is the term given to a proposed solution to the media downloading/sharing dilemma. As described in this new report from the Digital Media Project at Harvard Law School, Rights holders would form a collective blanket licensing (CBL) organization, and, rather than attempting to collect per-use fees for each specific item, would […]
Month: January 2005
More Martini Media
Nine months ago I borrowed the term ‘martini media’ from Ashley Highfield of the BBC, and said I wanted to promote its use. I thought he might be constrained from promoting it too much, since plugging a brand name doesn’t fit with the BBC’s advertising-free ethos. But in the weeks either side of Christmas this […]