Value Creation v. Value Capture
A while back I wrote about two-step competition with regards to replicable works. I’d like to pick up the subject, only this time looking at the value of said works. I think that we can agree that each...
View ArticleDealing With Content Aggregation
One of the more contentious issues that have cropped up recently is the question of how to handle content aggregation. In terms of Internet warfare, the news is the the new recording industry. There’s...
View ArticleGlee, Creativity And Copyright
I don’t like writing posts such as this one, for two reasons. The first is that it raises my blood pressure ever so slightly – never a good thing. The second is that it forces me to state things that...
View ArticleThe New-Style Independent Record Store
Sometimes I find myself overwhelmed with a glut of posting topics and no idea which to tackle first. I’ll try to clear my desk over the next couple of days, so look for posts on social image management...
View ArticleProperty and Monopoly
One of the typical criticisms of copyright is that it grants the rightsholder (the creator or any party he or she assigns or licenses the rights to) a legal monopoly to exploit the rights to his or her...
View ArticleJefferson, Copyright and Natural Law
An interesting discussion has erupted in a portion of the blogosphere that receives my special attention. It started innocently enough, with Copyhype’s Terry Hart asking: “Who cares what Jefferson...
View ArticleGrooveshark and the Legal Context of Innovation
I’ve yet to see it, but I’d like to think that somewhere between the knee-jerk exultations of “Censorship!” and “Freedom of speech!”, someone in the anti-SOPA crowd has posed the following question:...
View ArticleCopyright and the Little Guy Part 1 – Copyright Acquisition
In a comment to my previous post1, reader M – who tends to get confused about a great many things – humorously posited that since the majority of music copyrights are owned (or exclusively licensed) by...
View ArticleCopyright and the Little Guy Part 2 – Copyright and Competition Redux
Continuing on from the previous post,1 today we’ll have a look at how copyright impacts the competitive positions of intermediaries/end-users of copyright, once again focusing on the “little guy” –...
View ArticleCopyright and Creativity
One of the arguments against copyright that just won’t die is that copyright stifles creativity. Just take that one in and think about it for a moment: a restriction on copying stifles creativity. I...
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