Synesthesia

A podcast and related blog post from Dave Winer [via Doc Searls] makes some important points about the true impact of DRM on the media industry, and led me to start thinking about the strategic forces at play in the current "Internet will eat the Media" debate. In this post I summarise his key points, and then build on them to produce a value net analysis of the media industry from the perspective of the current incumbents. In later posts I will look at the analysis from the perspective of the people who create the content and devlop some thinking on the strategies open to both parties.

I’ve changed the licencing for the material in this blog to pick up the recently-released UK version of the Creative Commons licence. Henceforth all original content created by myself and published on this website (including material previously published under different terms) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales License. Technorati Tags intellectual_property, [...]

Cory Doctorow has "posted":http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt the talk on DRM(Digital Rights Management) he gave this week to Microsoft Research

Suw Charman has an excellent post on the whole Lawrence Lessig "Free Culture" thing. Drawing on that I start to bounce around a few thoughts about the factors that differentiate areas receptive to the Creative Commons idea and ponder how to link in the commercial needs of large media companies...

Links to two threads - one about Creative Commons, the other about the effect of intellectual property on innovation

Zimran at Winterspeak continues to expose the corporate machinations around copyright, media and the digital age… Technorati Tags intellectual_property