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YouTube Motions Highlight How Entertainment Industry Lawsuits May Have Slowed Useful Platforms
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| Now, some will scoff and claims that Grokster
| was never going to turn into what YouTube is
| today, but you're saying that with the gift
| of hindsight. A large part of Viacom's motion
| tries to suggest that the two companies
| actually were quite similar -- but even
| Viacom is now admitting that YouTube's
| business model was able to mature and adapt.
| Considering that we still don't have music
| discovery, promotion and distribution tools
| as convenient as Napster was back in the day,
| this can be seen as a real shame. These
| lawsuits killed off a useful path of
| exploration for legitimate business models,
| and that's not only shameful but a waste of
| innovative effort. It's only through the
| random quirk of a slow court that YouTube may
| avoid suffering the same fate.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100318/1700558626.shtml
Indie Artists Discuss Dealing With File Sharing
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| Then there's an interview of Dan Bull, known
| around these parts for his musically
| brilliant open letters to Lily Allen and
| Peter Mandelson. In the interview, he
| discusses his views on the music business and
| things like file sharing. He notes that he's
| mainly "against... enforcing backwards laws
| in order to cling onto an obsolete business
| model."
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100304/0357458411.shtml
The Little Band of White That Forced a Design Copyright Fight
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| This writer is worn out and he wasn't even at
| South by Southwest this weekend. So in the
| interest of keeping things light, here's
| something to put into the strange copyright
| battles file. Dixie Consumer Products and
| Huhtamaki Americas Inc. have just finished up
| in federal court over a suit filed by Dixie
| who said their competitor had copied their
| cup design.
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http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/product_design/the_little_band_of_white_that_forced_a_design_copyright_fight_155005.asp
Apparently The Word 'Piracy' No Longer Sufficiently Derogatory For Entertainment Industry
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| Ok. Pick your jaw up off the floor. First,
| this is stunning in that it's been the
| entertainment industry itself that pushed and
| popularized the term "piracy" for copyright
| infringement. They did so very deliberately
| in an attempt to demonize the act of
| infringement, presenting it as something much
| worse. That some have since taken that term
| and embraced it hardly changes that initial
| fact. Second, she's wrong about the fact that
| they're "talking about a criminal act." Yes,
| in some cases copyright infringement may be a
| criminal act, but in most cases the use of
| "piracy" these days refers to civil issues
| between two parties and not criminal acts at
| all.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100318/1326228625.shtml
Is Copyright the Buggy Whip of the Digital Age?
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| Then in another panel session, Mr. Griffin,
| the founder of OneHouse, whose company is
| developing a new model of music and
| entertainment delivery, probably made the
| most impassioned argument that content must
| flow freely (double entendre intended) given
| its capacity to improve the human condition.
| He likened the current copyright model to an
| "old vine we cling to," unsuited for today's
| digital world. His solution is to pay content
| creators based on an "actuarial" model where
| groups can share revenue collectively.
|
| What was most inspiring is that these people
| were openly saying what I was thinking -- the
| current system is ill-suited to the current
| realities. The answer lies in innovating new
| ways to compensate content creators such as
| new compensation structures or new engagement
| methods that can be monetized. In their
| personal experiences and outlooks, these
| content producers effectively laid down the
| gauntlet to the legal industry -- innovate or
| we may all die.
|
| Maybe that's why Jim Griffin used this quote
| as a rallying call: "Copyright law ... is not
| an engine of free expression, but a yoke of
| innovation." Maybe that's why the conference
| is themed: "The Collision of Ideas."
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http://adage.com/digitalnext/post?article_id=142815
The 94 Percent Solution
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| Newspapers are folding, magazines are fading,
| ad pages are down and angst is up in the
| serial publishing business as it struggles
| through a global technological transition and
| may not survive. But what will be our next
| New York Times, our new Field & Stream, our
| improved Playboy? Thatâs what the big guns
| of publishing are fighting about with their
| Kindles and iPads. But I think they may have
| it all wrong and my friend Anina, the fashion
| model/girl geek may have it all right.
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http://www.cringely.com/2010/03/the-94-percent-solution/
DIY icon Albini addresses music industry issues
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| The scene at Haileyâs Club on Friday
| afternoon played like a rumpled, foul-mouthed
| version of Inside the Actors Studio with
| James Lipton. Denton musician Scott Porter
| had notes at the ready for his interview with
| Chicago-based punk rock musician and
| recording engineer Steve Albini. The near-
| capacity crowd in the bar filed in from
| Mulberry Street.
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http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/stories/DRC_albini_0313.1a152eb57.html
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