Creative Commons Doesn’t Cannibalize Sales
Chris Anderson recently posted “The best selling MP3 album of the year was free” on The Long Tail blog. Apparently, Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV was the best selling MP3 album of 2008 despite being released under a Creative Commons license that allowed for free, legal sharing.
The album grossed more than $1.6 million in revenue [...]
RIAA Strong-arms ISPs Instead of Customers
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TechCrunch today reports that the RIAA is changing tactics:
Instead of dragging music downloaders and file-sharers into court, it has somehow convinced ISPs to take on the role of digital policeman (and jury and judge).
The original story in the Wall Street Journal has full details, but the gist is that the RIAA will provide [...]
Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem: DRM done right? Or yet another failed attempt?
Here’s what we know so far. DECE will announce details at CES in January. The general principle is something along the lines of a digital rights locker in the cloud that keeps track of what content you have purchased and have rights to play.
Image from Night Star RomanusThe major goals [...]
Anybody who Legally Downloads Music is an Idiot…
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That’s what record store owner John Kioussis told Steve Guttenberg of The Audiophiliac.
Do you agree with Kioussis? Is legal digital music so bad that it’s not worth obeying the law?
Certainly there have been arguments made that draconian DRM has limited the appeal of legal sources for downloaded [...]
Legal IP Issues and Staffing Up
I’ve been considering how and whether to copyright this project. My inclination is to license it under Creative Commons or another open source license, but I will have to check on the feelings of people involved and the potential problems that might cause in bringing it to festivals or distribution.
In fact, it would be [...]
