Intellectual property issues such as copyrights, patents, trademarks,
peer to peer networks, sampling and digital rights technology have a
profound impact on many aspects of society. Interbeing provides links
to emerging IP stories with a focus on law, technology and culture.
peer to peer networks, sampling and digital rights technology have a
profound impact on many aspects of society. Interbeing provides links
to emerging IP stories with a focus on law, technology and culture.
Saturday, August 14, 2004
Interesting IP Conversation
For those of you following the Peer-to-Peer and intellectual property wars, there's an interesting conversation on Slashdot that started yesterday. It begain with a reference to a Wired article on Net publishing focused on ebooks.
The book and record industrys' business models have evolved into focusing on a relatively small number of publications and artists (like Harry Potter and Britney Spears) to create massive revenues. At the same time, distribution is ever-more concentrated in a small number of radio and publishing conglomorates, retail book companies, etc. Finally, the idea of intellectual property is being more widely defined and covering areas that historically have not been considered property.
The bottom line is that the once rich ecology of the marketplace is falling, not to State controlled Socialism, but to Capitalism. How ironic. The rise of P2P networks, in my mind, is just the market responding to an unhealthy imbalanced system.
Some people get it. Michael Moore said it was okay for people to share bootleg copies of his "Farhenheit 911" movie, as long as they didn't sell it.
PERMALINK: 10:33 AM
For those of you following the Peer-to-Peer and intellectual property wars, there's an interesting conversation on Slashdot that started yesterday. It begain with a reference to a Wired article on Net publishing focused on ebooks.
The book and record industrys' business models have evolved into focusing on a relatively small number of publications and artists (like Harry Potter and Britney Spears) to create massive revenues. At the same time, distribution is ever-more concentrated in a small number of radio and publishing conglomorates, retail book companies, etc. Finally, the idea of intellectual property is being more widely defined and covering areas that historically have not been considered property.
The bottom line is that the once rich ecology of the marketplace is falling, not to State controlled Socialism, but to Capitalism. How ironic. The rise of P2P networks, in my mind, is just the market responding to an unhealthy imbalanced system.
Some people get it. Michael Moore said it was okay for people to share bootleg copies of his "Farhenheit 911" movie, as long as they didn't sell it.
PERMALINK: 10:33 AM
