How many people is Google laying off at Motorola Mobility? So much for using that IP.
Kodak is a bankrupt company, yet their IP is supposedly worth billions of dollars. If the IP is worth that much money, then Kodak should have been able to do something with their government-approved monopoly. Same thing with Nortel.
You assume that each and every patent required lots of R&D and lots of money. If a patent can be easily copied, then perhaps that patent shouldn't have been approved in the first place.
Apple asked for $40 per device from Samsung for a licence to cover patents Apples says are being infringed by Samsung. With the broad wording in most patents these days, it is no stretch of the imagination that a smartphone may be accused of infringing on hundreds of patents. If every patent troll or tech company wanted a licence, that cellphone would cost $1,000 or more.
When Microsoft makes more money from Android phones than Google does without actually making anything for the Android phone, then there is something wrong with the patent system.
Not bribes. By mostly ruling in favour of patent trolls, judges in East Texas improve the likelihood that patent lawsuits will be filed in East Texas, thereby improving job security. Just another government process that has become self-serving.
No one is going to clean up the patent system. The legal system makes a killing from it and at the end of the day most politicians in the pocket of one company or another.
The truly sad thing is that Morrison believes he is arguing on the facts.
He defends copyright "because it is the lifeblood of the creative industries", yet conveniently ignores that much of Disney's early works were completely based on works in the public domain. Does he honestly believe that Avatar is a completely new creative work?
He laments the decline of movie studios, yet ignores that one of the reasons why the movie studios relocated to Hollywood is because the movie studios did not want to pay royalties to Edison. Pirates!
He ignores the recording industry practice of payola - that's right, record companies paid radio stations money to play their songs or to place their songs higher on so-called 'hit lists'.
He ignores Hollywood Accounting and how a top blockbuster movie "loses" money, screwing anyone that signed for a net portion of revenue.
He ignores that record companies and royalty collectors often can't 'find' artists to pay them their royalties or that royalties are distributed not based on the actual play of a song, but on the sales of the song. Sorry new band, but the royalties collected for your song go to U2.
My youngest loves On Demand via our Cable TV provider. I constantly see the On Demand queue full of kids shows.
This idea about steering viewers is completely out of date. I like the new show Longmire on A&E, but by 10 pm on a Sunday, I'm ready to hit the sack. So I record it and watch at a more convenient time.
From my point-of-view, traditional TV does not represent a medium with the best long-term economics.
I don't have a problem with ticket prices. It's all the fees and services charges that get added. Was thinking about taking my family to see a Detroit Tigers game this summer.
I live across the river in Windsor, Canada, so going to the box office isn't convenient. I priced four tickets and the fees and charges increased the final price before taxes by about 30%. WTF? There was a flat fee, a per ticket fee and a shipping fee.
That explains why YOU are not watching as much TV as YOU used to. TV sucks for you. Fine. But for other people, it doesn't.
The "it used to be better before" is a tired meme. It constantly comes up whenever you talk about music. 'Today's music sucks and that's why the recording industry is in trouble' is a common statement. Popular music - and popular TV - have been around forever. That will never change.
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Kodak is a bankrupt company, yet their IP is supposedly worth billions of dollars. If the IP is worth that much money, then Kodak should have been able to do something with their government-approved monopoly. Same thing with Nortel.
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When Microsoft makes more money from Android phones than Google does without actually making anything for the Android phone, then there is something wrong with the patent system.
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The so-called modern olympics turned that around. The money went to the organizers, to the associations, to any body but the athlete.
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He defends copyright "because it is the lifeblood of the creative industries", yet conveniently ignores that much of Disney's early works were completely based on works in the public domain. Does he honestly believe that Avatar is a completely new creative work?
He laments the decline of movie studios, yet ignores that one of the reasons why the movie studios relocated to Hollywood is because the movie studios did not want to pay royalties to Edison. Pirates!
He ignores the recording industry practice of payola - that's right, record companies paid radio stations money to play their songs or to place their songs higher on so-called 'hit lists'.
He ignores Hollywood Accounting and how a top blockbuster movie "loses" money, screwing anyone that signed for a net portion of revenue.
He ignores that record companies and royalty collectors often can't 'find' artists to pay them their royalties or that royalties are distributed not based on the actual play of a song, but on the sales of the song. Sorry new band, but the royalties collected for your song go to U2.
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This idea about steering viewers is completely out of date. I like the new show Longmire on A&E, but by 10 pm on a Sunday, I'm ready to hit the sack. So I record it and watch at a more convenient time.
From my point-of-view, traditional TV does not represent a medium with the best long-term economics.
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I live across the river in Windsor, Canada, so going to the box office isn't convenient. I priced four tickets and the fees and charges increased the final price before taxes by about 30%. WTF? There was a flat fee, a per ticket fee and a shipping fee.
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The "it used to be better before" is a tired meme. It constantly comes up whenever you talk about music. 'Today's music sucks and that's why the recording industry is in trouble' is a common statement. Popular music - and popular TV - have been around forever. That will never change.
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