The Motion Picture Association of America says the global take at the box office in 2009 was an all time record, up 7.6% from 2008. Domestic box office was up primarily because of higher 3D ticket prices – but attendance overall was up 5.5 percent as well, though still below the record, which was set [...]
Two interesting items found in Mediapost today, both on where the money is going.
For the first time digital advertising revenue is expected to exceed print advertising revenue. Mediapost quotes a study by Outsell:
Altogether, U.S. advertisers and marketers plan to spend $368 billion in 2010, Outsell found — up 1.2% from about $364 billion in 2009. [...]
It’s being called a dispute over how to split revenues, and we suppose it could still get solved by Friday, which is when Comedy Central says it’s pulling shows off of Hulu. But we see it as more recognition that giving away the product doesn’t work.
Forget merger. (OK, don’t forget it, just put it to the side for a moment.)
This is the critical battlefield right now. And somebody ought to remind these guys, it’s not “piracy,” it’s stealing.
AFL-CIO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTS ANTI-PIRACY MEASURES
ORLANDO, Mar. 2 – The AFL-CIO Executive Council, at its meeting today in Orlando, unanimously adopted [...]
A court in Missouri has given a two year federal prison sentence to a guy who took a camcorder into a theater and pirated “The Dark Knight” by selling counterfeit DVDs. Despite that and despite the court ruling last year that supposedly was going to shut down sites like Pirate Bay, an online search shows [...]
You can’t make this stuff up.
