Great that you brought this up, Adam Wasserman. You cannot patent perfume that have natural ingredients because you cannot patent natural ingredients (or something along those lines). This is why low cost knock-off perfumes makers of natural ingredient perfumes are allowed to exists. Yet, the perfume companies that originate scents and use natural ingredients and have high budget design and marketing behind them continue to exists and turn profits. I might not have worded this exactly well, so Mike, you can elaborate.
You could have made the same argument when the phonograph was invented and the selling of sheet music before (and many people did and yet we can see over the last 150 years that the opposite was true) that these new mediums would kill live music. However, the only made live performances more valuable. There is no way you could have had all the fanfare for live acts such as Elvis, the Beatles, or Motown without the existence of records (payed on the radio or a record player, it does not matter).
"We believe our first responsibility is to the doctors, nurses and patients, to mothers and fathers and all others who use our products and services."
Do you think that ARC might use J&J products?
"We are responsible to our employees, the men and women who work with us throughout the world. Everyone must be considered as an individual. We must respect their dignity and recognize their merit."
This sounds like a lack of respect of the mission of the ARC and a lack of recognition of the ARC's merit to me.
"We are responsible to the communities in which we live and work and to the world community as well."
This trademark suit makes it seem like they are being irresponsible by attempting to drain the resources of charity that seems to both share the cause and use their own products.
Here is the linchpin that kills everything else:
"Our final responsibility is to our stockholders."
MADD will not stop unless by force. Even through the may have made laws tougher and streets safer, their executives will not get paid and their cause will cease to exist and get funding unless the find new ways to to limit freedoms as they relate to alcohol. They really must be stopped, but it will not be possible by political means, since no politician wants to be seen as supporting drunk driving. Anyone have any ideas on how to kill MADD?
Soundexchange thinks they can tax *all* music just like the British taxed the American colonies. Time to declare independence and start a revolutionary war against RIAA and NAB!
I think there is going to be a movement like a poster above mentioned. A branding campaign for Internet Radio stations: 100% RIAA free and proud!
I remember reading the terms of the Insight Community when I was accepted and I knew there would not be anything fishy there becuase of the nature of your site. Before I got to the end of this post I almost thought you were going to have different versions of the agreement and that writing would be locked into the agreement version that was offered at the time. That could get messy but I know there are analogs to this found in other areas.
This professor is a Berkeley of all places? You would think his thinking might be a little more progressive.
When a business's profits start to go away, it no longer deserves to be in business. If it is a service as important as news, the government steps in and supply the service (such as PBS, NPR, government and private funding of the arts, other regulated and unregulated public utilities), but usually a better business model will and have emerged (such as the ecosystem of blogs, aggregators, filters, rankers, recommendation engines, and search engines) and make a profit at the same time. Stop the winning, Henry.
Colleges should be encouraging the spread of culture as they do with knowledge (teaching) and literature (libraries). This is getting ridiculous. What's next? Not talking about music? You are right AC, if P2P is no legal there is FTP. Are there any open source P2P apps that run on a local network not connected to the net? That will be next way to share music on college campuses.
How about chief paper officer or chief brick-and-mortar officer?
I think it is too early to expect these older strategists to think to the Internet as part of a cohesive strategy. Give it 10-15 years. But the ones that do see the big picture definitely have the advantage.
Unless angry dude identifies himself as John Hutchison, I think it is pretty clear that this guy is a tin foil hat wearing loony and does not deserve our attention (unless that is someone else posting as angry dude).
I think this is a very important issue, and I am wondering if you have been thinking of any ways to help us concerned TechDirt readers can take action in some way. I very concerned about the future of innovation and the ever increasing restrictiveness of it. Innovation is a basic human right/need . We will all become IP serfs!
Do brick-and-mortar business get their property stolen of the backs of car makers and roads used to get customers to the business? If the business does not have good security, maybe. But without the roads, the customers could not reach the business. The roads and the cars *help drive traffic* to the brick-and-mortar business. When was the last time a robbed bank tried to sue automakers (in the getaway car) and road infrastructure providers (what the the car drove on)?
It is possible that this fee is even higher because crapware helps bring down the cost of the PCs. The crapware vendors pay Dell to put the crapware on their PCs. I am surprised the cost of the Linux Dell PCs is not higher because of this. Maybe there is Linux crapware on these Dells?
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perfume industry: another great example
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http://www.jnj.com/our_company/our_credo/index.htm
"We believe our first responsibility is to the doctors, nurses and patients, to mothers and fathers and all others who use our products and services."
Do you think that ARC might use J&J products?
"We are responsible to our employees, the men and women who work with us throughout the world. Everyone must be considered as an individual. We must respect their dignity and recognize their merit."
This sounds like a lack of respect of the mission of the ARC and a lack of recognition of the ARC's merit to me.
"We are responsible to the communities in which we live and work and to the world community as well."
This trademark suit makes it seem like they are being irresponsible by attempting to drain the resources of charity that seems to both share the cause and use their own products.
Here is the linchpin that kills everything else:
"Our final responsibility is to our stockholders."
J&J, you have been called out!
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declare independence and start a revolution
I think there is going to be a movement like a poster above mentioned. A branding campaign for Internet Radio stations: 100% RIAA free and proud!
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When a business's profits start to go away, it no longer deserves to be in business. If it is a service as important as news, the government steps in and supply the service (such as PBS, NPR, government and private funding of the arts, other regulated and unregulated public utilities), but usually a better business model will and have emerged (such as the ecosystem of blogs, aggregators, filters, rankers, recommendation engines, and search engines) and make a profit at the same time. Stop the winning, Henry.
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I think it is too early to expect these older strategists to think to the Internet as part of a cohesive strategy. Give it 10-15 years. But the ones that do see the big picture definitely have the advantage.
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ignore angry dude: alien communicator device?
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Let's take action!
I think this is a very important issue, and I am wondering if you have been thinking of any ways to help us concerned TechDirt readers can take action in some way. I very concerned about the future of innovation and the ever increasing restrictiveness of it. Innovation is a basic human right/need . We will all become IP serfs!
~Nick
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