Archive for the 'Digital Rights' Category

Design An App or a T-shirt and Win a trip to CES

By Laura Hubbard
Have you always wanted to go to the International CES, but you’ve never had the opportunity or money to make it to Vegas. The Innovation Movement is currently running two contests that will test your innovation skills and might just win you a ticket to the big event in January.
For those [...]

Friday, November 6th, 2009

The Evolution of Ebooks, part Three

By Sean Murphy
With the benefit of hindsight, everyone now knows that the music industry, by taking so long to see the writing on the wall, squandered valuable time to adapt and innovate. The incredibly successful and occasionally sordid history of how records got made and sold too often enriched the labels and disenfranchised the [...]

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Fix Drugs and Rock & Roll

By Dave Wilson
Here’s a brief, true story. Not long ago I began broadcasting on a couple of FM frequencies with programming that is 100 percent locally produced spoken word. No music whatsoever is broadcast on either frequency. About a month after I began operations I received a bill from the American Society of Composers, [...]

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Banned Books and Freedom of Speech Week

By Katherine Rutkowski
Who knew? While browsing a list of commonly challenged books (a truly librarian-geeky pursuit) it struck me that timing or dumb luck had afforded me the chance to find and read at least half of those titles with no risk or roadblock. As my born-to-immigrants parents would say “American citizens are the [...]

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Freedom of Expression & The Future of Music

By Joe Gizzi
While a heated campaign is being waged for the future of the country, your friends at Digital Freedom have been tearing up the trails, campaigning for the future of music. Across state and party lines, our coalition of artists, innovators and fans have joined hands in support of new technologies that allow [...]

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Are you a Guitar Hero?

By Colleen Lerro
My interest (or as some might call it – my obsession) in Guitar Hero began last December when listening to a really bad 80s cover band, my friends and I decided we could definitely rock better than them. Having no idea just how much time Guitar Hero would consume, we decided that [...]

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Welcome to the Dialogue

Hello and welcome to CEA Digital Dialogue, the official blog site of the Consumer Electronics Association.
We have a bright and energetic staff of about 150 here at CEA with a wide array of knowledge and considerable interest in consumer electronics. A few of them are what I consider to be extreme CE consumers and we [...]

Monday, March 31st, 2008