Verimatrix and Sony double act talks up a Federated Rights future

It was back in 2003 before the first issue of Faultline went out to customers, that we wrote the Faultline Manifesto. One of its many promises was that one day after theatrical distribution and DVD production, movies and TV series might be available in an online marketplace for any distributor around the world to serve up online to its customers. We even went further and suggested an automated content marketplace where transactions could be done in real time, after a request for the content was issued by a customer to any distributor, with the terms locked in at the time and the contract policed in software. Tall order, but that’s how energy markets work, so why not. That was perhaps…