Cherry Lane Digital LLC

Cherry Lane Digital LLC

Welcome to Cherry Lane Digital

If you're looking for Jim Griffin of Los Angeles, the guy who runs Cherry Lane Digital LLC and Evolab LLC, you've come to the right place. There are other Jim Griffins, especially near Kenmare in Southwestern Ireland, and even in Hollywood (another Jim Griffin is an agent at William Morris Agency, for example).

My interests are many, but focus on the digital delivery of art, especially music, movies, books and what some call intellectual property.

This web site is divided into eleven sections, each easily accessible from the menu above.

You can read about the Pho brunches and the Pho mailing list by clicking on the Pho section on the menu above. Or go to co-founder John Parres' Pholist site.

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Notable and Soon

I am having trouble keeping this updated, as I am travelling so very much thoughout Europe, but I will endeavor to keep updated it occasionally. I am mostly in Finland during April.

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Good Gigs:

Micafocus series on Music Navigator (Vienna, Austria)

On Friday 21 March I gave a talk at Bernhard Guenther's EU-sponsored Mica event on the Music Navigator. It was a fun presentation to give, a stimulating event and the first Vienna Pho gathering.

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University of California at Irvine Business School (Irvine, CA)

On Tuesday 11 February I gave a talk at the business school at UCI. It was fun, a good crowd, and I hope to return to UCI more often.

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Talking Turkey 1

On this year's Groundhog Day, Sunday 2 February 2003, we had the first of what we hope will be many turkey fries and discussions about the role of compulsory payments in monetizing music, movies and creative endeavors in a digital age.

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Now with Bill Moyer

On Friday 17 January 2003 I was included in a piece on libraries and copyright on Bill Moyer's show Now. You can find a transcript and links to on-line discussion here:

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_copyright.html

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Future of Music Conference

On Monday 6 January 2003 I moderated a panel at FOMC that turned out well, featuring David Benjamin (SVP Piracy Universal Music), Jim Cooperman (SVP Biz BMG), Sandy Pearlman (Creative VP Multicasttech), Peter Jenner (UK manager). It was a knife fight at times, others it was prosaic. Always it was a fascinating clash of ideas, old and new.

New: A full-length on-line video of the panel, courtesy of Multicasttech:

Major Labels - Can they Innovate?

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Long Bets

I recently made a Long Bet with Gordon Bell, a man I very much admire. Abraham Lincoln said it best: If two people in the room think the same thing, we don't need one of them. Read more about our bet on the future of interactive video services at Long Bets: http://www.longbets.org/bet/3

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Spot Music Conference

On 11 May 2002 I was in Denmark for the Spot Music Festival and had a terrific time. Good people, a great time, and terrific dialogue.

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