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o EarthLink Launching on AOL Time Warner Cable Systems
o MusicMatch Settles Litigation, Secures License With RIAA
o FullAudio Gets License from EMI for Subscription Service
o PlayMedia Jukebox to be Featured with Napster Subscription Service
o Online Entertainment Retailer E-Trend Networks Raises $10 Million
o Jarvis Entertainment Group Acquires VR Firm Cyber Mark International
> Digital Media Wire Seminar: Interactive TV | Los Angeles | July 25
o Briefly Noted: Napster legal transcripts, Public Enemy, Riot
Entertainment - "The Lord of the Rings," David Bowie - "Kick Out the
Jammies," RealNetworks, SpotLife - PacketVideo, IPix - NTT West Group,
Jupiter Media Metrix
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o EarthLink Launching on AOL Time Warner Cable Systems

Atlanta -- Internet service provider EarthLink announced on Monday that it
will begin providing cable modem high-speed Internet access on lines owned
by Time Warner cable systems in Columbus, Ohio and Syracuse, New York in
September. The companies also said that EarthLink will launch "a
substantial number" of additional Time Warner cable systems by the end of
the year. AOL Time Warner was compelled to open up its high-speed cable
lines to third parties as part of anti-trust measures related to AOL's
purchase of Time Warner. Atlanta-based EarthLink also has agreements with
cable operators Comcast, Cox and AT&T Broadband to access their cable
lines to provide broadband Internet access to consumers.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010716/0077.html
http://www.earthlink.com
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o MusicMatch Settles Litigation, Secures License With RIAA

San Diego --Music jukebox software developer MusicMatch said on Monday
that it has signed a licensing agreement with the Recording Industry
Association of America (RIAA) for music performances on its Web radio
service. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. As a result
both sides have agreed to drop pending litigation against one another. The
litigation stemmed from the RIAA's belief that MusicMatch's webcasting
service was in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
because it was termed too "interactive" -- in that users had too much
control over what music was played on the station. San Diego-based
MusicMatch's new license with the RIAA deems it a "non-interactive"
station that qualifies for a blanket license for all of the
RIAA-represented major labels' songs. MusicMatch also announced Monday
that TVT Records founder and CEO Steve Gottlieb has been appointed to its
board of directors.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/211972219&ticker=
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/211972220&ticker=
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6571222.html?tag=cd_mh
http://www.musicmatch.com 
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o FullAudio Gets License from EMI for Subscription Service

Chicago -- FullAudio, a company developing a subscription service for
digital music, announced on Monday that it has been granted a
non-exclusive license to use recordings owned by EMI Recorded Music in its
planned subscription service. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Chicago-based FullAudio has already secured publishing rights to songs for
its service from a number of publishers, including EMI Music Publishing
and BMG Music Publishing. FullAudio CEO Chris C. Gladwin told the New York
Times that the company plans to launch its service within 90 days to
compete with the planned launches of competing subscription services from
MusicNet and Pressplay. FullAudio's service will download selected songs
into a cache on the subscriber's computer -- which can only be accessed as
long as the subscriber's account is paid up to date -- and allows them to
be listened to while the user is off-line. The songs can also be
transferred to portable devices such as MP3 players.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/211972186&ticker=
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/16/technology/16TUNE.html
http://www.fullaudio.com
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o PlayMedia Jukebox to be Featured with Napster Subscription Service

Redwood City, Calif. -- Napster announced on Monday that it will use
PlayMedia's digital music player software in its planned music
subscription service. The company's AMP software is used in other music
players such as AOL's Winamp player. Los Angeles-based PlayMedia is also
providing Napster with security technology that allows for customized
playback, encryption and decryption that will enable the Napster software
to encode, recognize and play protected music files on the service.
http://www.playmediasystems.com/Napster-PlayMedia%20Pact.pdf
http://www.playmediasystems.com
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o Online Entertainment Retailer E-Trend Networks Raises $10 Million

Fort Lauderdale, Fl. -- E-Trend Networks, which owns and operates the
e-commerce site EntertainMe.com, announced on Monday that it has raised
$10 million through a private placement of its stock with an undisclosed
institutional investor. The three-year funding commitment will occur in
periodic draws and is subject to certain volume limitations related to the
company's stock. EntertainMe.com sells DVDs and CDs online, in addition to
offering movie trailers and other information on upcoming releases.
Florida-based E-Trend Networks also operates Langara Distribution, which
distributes movies and music to both online and traditional retailers.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010716/ca051.html
http://www.etrendnetworks.com/index.asp
http://www.entertainme.com
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o Jarvis Entertainment Group Acquires VR Firm Cyber Mark International

Houston, Texas -- Jarvis Entertainment Group, a developer and marketer of
Internet-based entertainment systems, said on Monday that it will acquire
Cyber Mark International, a developer of coin-operated, Internet-connected
virtual reality entertainment games. Under the terms, Houston-based Jarvis
will acquire controlling interest of Canada-based Cyber Mark, and will
move all operations to Houston. Cyber Mark president and CEO Sam Singal
will resign and Jarvis CEO John Jarvis will take over leadership of the
company. Cyber Mark's products include the virtual reality video games
"Virtual Speedway300" and "Cobra."
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010716/2088.html
http://www.jarvisgroup.net
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o Briefly Noted:

(Redwood City, Calif.) Napster has posted a 53-page transcript on its
website of last week's closed-door session with Judge Marilyn Hall Patel
and the RIAA, that ended with the judge ordering the file-sharing service
shut down until its filters are 100 percent effective. Judge Patel agreed
to allow its publication after the company lobbied that the public needed
to know more about the ongoing proceedings. Webnoize reported that the
RIAA is now seeking to expedite its case against the company by asking the
court for a summary judgment, which would assume Napster's guilt and
preclude the necessity for a lengthy trial.
http://dl.napster.com/010712-reporterstranscript.pdf
http://news.webnoize.com/item.rs?ID=13636

(Los Angeles) Rap group Public Enemy announced an online contest Monday
that gives fans and amateur producers the chance to contribute their own
music to an upcoming PE album on Chuck D's SlamJamz.com label. Visitors to
the website can download several vocal tracks, create their own music to
accompany the vocals, and then upload the completed tracks back onto the
website. Several of the mixes will be included on the upcoming album --
which will be released in the fall -- with the amateur producers retaining
co-ownership rights and earning royalties from the sale of each copy.
http://www.slamjamz.com/slamnews.php?article=7

(London) Wireless entertainment developer Riot Entertainment announced
Monday that it has been granted the exclusive rights to develop wireless
interactive games based on New Line Cinema's "The Lord of the Rings"
trilogy. The first games created by London-based Riot Entertainment for
Europe, Asia and the U.S. are due before the end of the summer. The
company said it would create games for SMS text messaging services as well
as multiplayer games for the 3G platform over the course of the release of
the three films.
http://www.riot-e.com/press/lotrpressrelease.html
http://www.lordoftherings.net/

(Los Angeles) Musician David Bowie has launched a Web radio station for
children, aptly titled "Kick Out the Jammies." The site resulted from
Bowie's creating mix tapes for his 11-month-old daughter Alexandria, and
offers some of Bowie's own music along with classical selections and
sing-alongs. "I was putting together tapes to play while Alex took a bath
or had breakfast or... and it occurred to me that it would be a nice thing
to put together a station’s worth of stuff for kids," said Bowie.
http://www.davidbowie.com/freebowie2/freeradio/launch.html

(Seattle) RealNetworks, a provider of digital media delivery services,
announced on Monday that it has hired Erik Flannigan to be the company's
vice president of music services and programming. Flannigan will oversee
the launch of MusicNet, the company's planned subscription service venture
with AOL and record labels Warner, EMI and BMG. Most recently, Flannigan
was a vice president at Walt Disney Internet Group, where he was
responsible for the launches of WallofSound.com and Movies.com.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010716/sfm076.html
http://www.realnetworks.com

(San Mateo, Calif.) SpotLife, a provider of personal webcasting software
and services, announced on Monday that it has partnered with wireless
video technology developer PacketVideo to develop private label video
communities for wireless carriers. The software will eventually let
members in these communities view and broadcast personal video content to
one another over a wireless network using video-equipped cell phones and
other wireless devices.
http://www.packetvideo.com/press/view.asp?id=151
http://www.spotlife.com

(Oak Ridge, Tenn.) IPix, a provider of 360-degree point-of-view imaging
technology for Internet businesses, announced on Monday that it has
partnered with NTT West Group to make its services available to the
Japanese market. NTT West Group has purchased a license to create 25,000
IPix images, and will open an Internet content processing business later
this summer that will initially cater to the real estate and travel
industries. Tennessee-based IPix also said Monday that the Nasdaq has
granted its request for a hearing to plead for its continued trading on
the exchange.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010716/hsm026.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010716/hsm025.html
http://www.ipix.com
http://www.ntt-west.co.jp/index_e.html

(New York) Internet analyst and audience measurement firm Jupiter Media
Metrix announced on Monday that it has appointed Robert Becker as its new
CEO. Most recently, Becker served as chairman and CEO of Infosis, an ISP
for businesses. Becker replaces Tod Johnson, who will remain chairman of
the New York-based firm.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010716/hsm035.html
http://www.jmm.com

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> The Sharper Image, Content Database Specialist - San Francisco

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> Digital Vision, Ltd., Account Executive - New York City

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http://www.taskstream.com
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> Walt Disney Internet Group, Sales Associate - Los Angeles

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> Dittus Communications, Senior Director - Washington, D.C.

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