The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.
 The MPAA recently joined Internet2, a non-profit consortium being led by 206 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and
technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 is recreating the partnership among academia, industry and government that fostered today’s Internet in its infancy. The primary goals of Internet2 are to:
- Create a leading edge network for national research
- Enable revolutionary Internet applications
- Ensure the rapid transfer of new network services and applications to the broader Internet community.
The MPAA views this partnership with Internet2 as an important opportunity for collaboration as we seek to link new delivery models with content protection. The MPAA and its member companies have a wide-range of expertise in both areas, and can add a positive, constructive perspective to the excellent work of Internet2.
Click here to learn more about Internet2 at www.internet2.edu
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FOR THE TECHNOLOGICAL AGE
A study by Richard A. Epstein ( University of Chicago ) and the Hoover Institution.
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MPAA AND BITTORRENT JOIN FORCES TO CURB PIRACY
On November 22, 2005 MPAA Chair and CEO Dan Glickman and President and Founder of BitTorrent Bram Cohen announced that BitTorrent.com and the MPAA would work together with the goal of inhibiting film piracy. The announcement is historic in that two major forces in the technology and film industries have agreed to work together and proactively identify ways to limit access to infringing material available via search engines like the one at BitTorrent.com and to promote constructive innovation in this area. |
Motion Picture Laboratories, Inc.
STUDIOS FOUND MOVIELABS TO HELP PROTECT AGAINST MOTION PICTURE THEFT & MISUSE
The six major motion picture studios announced in September 2005 a collaboration establishing a new non-profit research and development company called Motion Picture Laboratories, Inc. (Movielabs).
Movielabs is an independent entity formed to explore and develop new technologies to fight motion picture theft. The pooled investment provides a greater opportunity for quality products that will help the entire film industry.
Projects envisioned by Movielabs include developing new technology to detect camcorders, port access controls, client software detection, data management and other related tools. These new technologies will also be recommended to universities, corporations, Internet service providers and other network service operators to reduce piracy.
The founding owners of Movielabs include Walt Disney Pictures and Television, Paramount Pictures Corporation, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., Universal City Studios LLLP and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
The MPAA was instrumental in helping these studios facilitate the development of the new company and will act as an outside management and technology consultant to the new venture.
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