There is a flip side to holding something to give a publisher "first rights." Chances are the gatekeeper is going to want something like "eternal rights" to the work. By going with a traditional gatekeeper you are probably loosing a lot of control over your work and the profits earned from it.
Judges are hard to predict. There have been a number of judges who seem to have a bias that is opposite of what people assumed when they were appointed. Sometimes you will find a hard-core prosecutor who is soft on criminals once behind the bench, or a public defender who becomes a hanging judge. The theory is that they saw the flaws and abuses that went on when they were an attorney.
>>Android applications have to declare what access permissions they have on installation, so any app wanting to do this on Android will state that it can use the camera and microphone. If it's not obvious why it wants access to those, don't install it.
Good advice, but based on experience with my own family I think that page gets about as much attention from the average user as the click-thru EULA.
What I would like to see Google do is to open a music site that featured free music. Musicians could submit their creations to be streamed or downloaded. Most of the rating of music could be crowd-sourced, but there would be room for paid advertisement, including the ability to pay for recommendations. The paid recommendations would be isolated and clearly marked as paid.
The major labels would end up at Google's doorstep, ringing the bell and begging to be let in. Google's terms could be simple: give us a licence to stream or download whatever you want and we'll throw it in with the rest. If you want a special position you can pay for the ads and paid recommendations.
Contrary to what the industry says, the trickiest part of the business would be determining what is free and what is licensed. Digital fingerprinting might help, but it wouldn't be enough. Google would need some system that has bands register and provide some type of digital signature used for uploads.
I never underestimate what a lawyer will recommend suing for, nor do I underestimate the common sense of business executives. There are too many lawyers who recommend suing if there is any basis of a lawsuit and too many corporate boards and execs who do anything their lawyers recommend.
On the flip side, I would not be surprised to see someone who gets an infection while having a team logo tattoo done naming the team as a party in the resulting lawsuit. Lawyers like to name anyone with deep pockets as a co-defendant.
We really need penalties for filing baseless DCMA takedown notices with an extra SLAP provision for when the takedown is an attempt to stifle free speech.
I don't doubt her numbers. Traffic seems to be down by several measures. I was actually saying that the numbers in her study may actually be propped up artificially by the 20 free views and sponsorship. I think without those props the numbers would be worse, but we a still talking about a failure. Without the props we might be talking about a flaming disaster.
We do not know how many paid subscriptions the are and how much that offsets revenue losses.
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It probably doesn't, but I bet you could get a patent on it.
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Good advice, but based on experience with my own family I think that page gets about as much attention from the average user as the click-thru EULA.
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The major labels would end up at Google's doorstep, ringing the bell and begging to be let in. Google's terms could be simple: give us a licence to stream or download whatever you want and we'll throw it in with the rest. If you want a special position you can pay for the ads and paid recommendations.
Contrary to what the industry says, the trickiest part of the business would be determining what is free and what is licensed. Digital fingerprinting might help, but it wouldn't be enough. Google would need some system that has bands register and provide some type of digital signature used for uploads.
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On the flip side, I would not be surprised to see someone who gets an infection while having a team logo tattoo done naming the team as a party in the resulting lawsuit. Lawyers like to name anyone with deep pockets as a co-defendant.
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Response to: JC on Apr 12th, 2011 @ 8:27pm
We do not know how many paid subscriptions the are and how much that offsets revenue losses.
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