MUMBAI: DivX, Inc and deviantART, the art-focused community site has launched deviantART Film, a new video category within deviantART.com. This new category features the DivX media format as the default high-quality viewing option for...
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UNESCO honours Thai National Film Archives
MUMBAI: On 21 October, at the occasion of The Phuket Film Festival in Thailand, UNESCO presented the Minister of Culture, H.E. Mrs. Si-Arun Khaisi, with a Fellini Silver Medal Award and a certificate of...
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MySpace, Zazzle ink music merchandise deal
MUMBAI: Social networking website MySpace has entered into a music merchandise deal with Zazzle, the on-demand retail platform. The distribution partnership will empower more than six million musicians and bands on MySpace to sell...
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MTV to host DigiFest with Digital Hollywood
MUMBAI: Viacom’s MTV Networks will partner with Digital Hollywood to host MTVN DigiFest, an exclusive screening of world premiere and original digital content acquired or commissioned by Comedy Central, mtvU and AtomFilms. Immediately following...
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Ex-Disney Studios prez funds mobile ad company
MUMBAI: The Hyperfactory, a full-service mobile ideas, media and execution company, announced that former Walt Disney Studios and Paramount Television Group president and recent chairman of talent management company The Firm – Rich Frank;...
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Cliff Richard innovates for download album sale
MUMBAI: EMI Music and The Cliff Richard Organisation announced an innovative pricing model to mark the download release of Cliff’s latest album Love, The Album. Cliff Richard fans will be able to pre-order...
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Warner rolls multi-platform film campaign
MUMBAI: Time Warner Cable (TWC) is teaming with sister company Warner Bros. Pictures to launch an integrated marketing campaign in support of the new holiday comedy Fred Claus, starring Vince Vaughn and Paul Giamatti,...
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Bangkok’s optical disc factory raided
MUMBAI: Forty officers from the Crime Suppression Division of Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) together with Motion Picture Association representatives, raided a clandestine optical disc factory in Meenburi, Bangkok. Led by Commissioner of CIB,...
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Operation Octopus sqeezes HK pirates
MUMBAI: Between 15 – 19 October, the International Federation Against Copyright Theft – Greater China (IFA©T-GC) joined force with over 100 officers from the Hong Kong Customs Intellectual Property Investigation Bureau (IPIB) and Special Task...
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IPR education critical in piracy fight: Pisano
MUMBAI: Motion Picture Association president and chief operating officer Bob Pisano used a keynote speech at the inaugural Tokyo International Film Festival Intellectual Property Rights Forum to urge film industry representatives to work together...
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