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Russian Publishers Taking A More Progressive View On Book 'Piracy'
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| While some do seem upset about the issue,
| others are actually figuring out ways to deal
| with it, including offering their own vastly
| cheaper ebook versions quickly (and with no
| DRM), or even working out deals with "pirate"
| sites to share some of the ad revenue. The one
| publisher that the article focuses on, Sergei
| Parchomenko, says that they're not losing
| money from pirate sites, but the
| responsibility is on him to come up with a
| workable business model. It's nice to see
| someone realizing that they need to react to
| the market, rather than freak out about
| things.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091206/1159307220.shtml
Music as Commerce: Understanding a Mindset
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| By and large, thinking of music as
| commerce, as strictly a means through which
| money is made, is what got the record
| industry into this mess in the first place.
| Long before the Internet and file-sharing
| became common scapegoats, the record
| industryâs growth was already based on the
| notion of a forever expanding market for
| music that never existed. Because music is
| such a definitive part of the human
| experience and passionately embraced the
| world over, it was supposed that quarter to
| quarter not only could record labels
| achieve exponential growth, but that from
| album to album an artist ought to be able
| to achieve the same results. But, as we
| now know, this mindset can only persist for
| so long, because music as commerce expands
| rather differently from music as culture.
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http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/12/music-as-commerce-understanding-a-mindset.html
Recent:
Intellectual Monopolists Scorn the Blind
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| This, then, is the reality of "modern"
| copyright: it fails to serve huge numbers
| of people, many of whom are already
| suffering from discrimination in other
| ways.
|
| Given this situation, various
| organisations are not unreasonably trying
| to facilitate access to copyrighted works
| for those who are visually disabled with a
| new WIPO treaty that would define basic
| rights for this group. Who could object to
| such a humanitarian cause? Well, the
| publishers, of course.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/12/intellectual-monopolists-scorn-blind.html
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