Video streams served increased 38.8 percent in 2006 to 24.92 billion across all entertainment media sites, including free ad supported and subscription services, according to Accustream Media’s Streaming Media Growth report, released March 6.
The largest streaming video networks included portals such as Yahoo and MSN, while traditional media brands including Disney/ABC, CBS, Viacom, TimeWarner/AOL and NBC Universal also showed a significant streaming share. Video platforms Brightcove and Roo Media also performed well.
Reflecting an increasingly competitive content environment, broadband streams per unique user per site declined 10.9 percent in 2006 to 10.6 streams, excluding video advertising streams.
Music videos commanded the largest share of streaming video, 35.5 percent of total streams, followed by news with 23.6 percent. Total news streams were up 90 percent and viewing share by 38 percent over 2005.
“Media and entertainment brands fully embraced broadband publishing in 2006,” said Accustream’s research director Paul Palumbo. “They made more premium content available and fashioned syndication relationships with aggregators who can deliver audiences. More growing base high speed users and the adoption of Flash propelled the market.”
AI-Assisted Works Can Get Copyright With Enough Human Creativity, According To U.S. Copyright Office
Artists can copyright works they made with the help of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by the U.S. Copyright Office that could further clear the way for the use of AI tools in Hollywood, the music industry and other creative fields.
The nation's copyright office, which sits in the Library of Congress and is not part of the executive branch, receives about half a million copyright applications per year covering millions of individual works. It has increasingly been asked to register works that are AI-generated.
And while many of those decisions are made on a case-by-case basis, the report issued Wednesday clarifies the office's approach as one based on what the top U.S. copyright official describes as the "centrality of human creativity" in authoring a work that warrants copyright protections.
"Where that creativity is expressed through the use of AI systems, it continues to enjoy protection," said a statement from Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, who directs the office.
An AI-assisted work could be copyrightable if an artist's handiwork is perceptible. A human adapting an AI-generated output with "creative arrangements or modifications" could also make it fall under copyright protections.
The report follows a review that began in 2023 and fielded opinions from thousands of people that ranged from AI developers, to actors and country singers.
It shows the copyright office will continue to reject copyright claims for fully machine-generated content. A person simply prompting a chatbot or AI image generator to produce a work doesn't give that person the ability to copyright that work, according to the report. "Extending protection to material whose expressive elements are determined by a machine ...... Read More