Comments on: Entertainment Industry Value Added Services

By: intellectual property lawyers

intellectual property lawyers — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:49:34 +0000

The entertainment thing is quite different to what you have described to hotels. As far as I know in the entertainment field, people always wants something that comes out quick and this is why the copyright songs and movies and many such other things are getting more priority because they are the first to come out. Eventhough the legal law changes the public behavior doesn't changes.

By: The Rhetoric of Copyright Piracy « Run with the Law

The Rhetoric of Copyright Piracy « Run with the Law — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:15:17 +0000

[...] In my opinion one of the most important aspects of public perception of copyright is how the public is used to interacting with the content. The authors describe how through radio music has been delivered to the public free of charge. While people are used to paying money to go see a movie and even paying their cable bill to watch tv, radio has been allowing the public to listen to music for free since the early 1900s. Furthermore between channel scanning and call in requests people are used to being able to hear the music they want to hear at any time. Just as I have previously argued, the authors suggest that one way to overcome people’s accustom to getting music for free is to add-value. [...]

By: Email to an Artist re: Jamie Thomas and KaZaA « Run with the Law

Email to an Artist re: Jamie Thomas and KaZaA « Run with the Law — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:52:10 +0000

[...] Another reason why they did not adopt digital distribution early on was the fear of piracy. The theory behind most early RIAA and studio attempts at digital distribution revolved around DRM (trying to assure that the music was not copied and distributed for free.) One of the problems with this focus is that it mainly restricts legitimate uses by your customers while doing little to restrict those who are going to pirate music. Video game companies are currently dealing with this as well and are beginning to realize that they will never be able to keep everyone from getting the game for free. Instead they are focusing on creating incentives to buy the game rather than get it for free (back to value added services.) [...]

By: GregSJ

GregSJ — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:09:52 +0000

Unsurprisingly Mike Masnick over at TechDirt has a interesting take on this in connection with the music industry. For those interested a video of a presentation he gave is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njuo1puB1lg

By: GregSJ

GregSJ — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:09:52 +0000