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Music Clouds, Portability, and Graduated Response

Clouds look like bad news to me. Instead of the greater efficiency of shared resources it looks to me like they are all attempts to inflate switching costs and achieve higher profitability, at the expense of efficiency and consumer value. … Continue reading

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Fix The Market, Not Copyright Law

The UK Government has announced another review into IP under Professor Ian Hargreaves; does it or does it not, on balance, generate the optimal amount of GDP growth and jobs? The UK is, relatively, a major creative power, being a net … Continue reading

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Online Piracy the Greatest Threat to… Pirates!

Just reading through the documents from WIPO’s December meeting of the Advisory Committee on Enforcement, and in particular looking at price comparisons between the retail versions and the pirate versions of CDs and DVDs. One thing stood out to me, that … Continue reading

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Don’t Trust the Music Cloud

The skies in Cannes this year have been a painfully perfect blue for almost all of MIDEM. The only clouds have been the latest crap that passes for strategy from the music industry. I am with Larry on the cloud. … Continue reading

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