A whole country (albeit not a very big one) goes in for compulsory licenses for music.
if i could tag this ip with both meanings of the term, i would
I didn't realize Kraftwerk were the bad guys.
"Paul Goldstein says that copyright isn’t expanding; that’s just an optical illusion. It’s technology that’s expanding, and that’s just bringing the rest of us into contact with copyright, which is right where it’s always been."
nomics in the context of scarcity. However, the point is that if you understand the zero, there's nothing to worry about and the model works perfectly. It just requires a recognition that the scarcity doesn't exist. Instead, you have abundance. You can have as much content as you need -- and in that world, it makes perfect sense that there's no costs, because without scarcity there need not be a cost. Supply is infinite, and price is zero. That does not mean, however, that there's no business. Instead, it just means you need to flip the equation and use th
Interesting thoughts on copyright from James Grimmelmann. "As with banks, the expectation that a copyright-based industry is on the brink of failure may be self-fulfilling."
I'd (thankfully?) forgotten about this. Oh well!
More evidence of bands releasing works onto P2P networks as a form of promotion.
