Putting money where our mouths are
As Tim O’Reilly has pointed out, one of the major problems with SOPA and PIPA is that they regulate in favor of an “old economy,” and against the new. It’s sort of like the stage coach companies...
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On pirates and piracy
We’ve heard a lot about “piracy” in the last few months. But as you’d expect, there’s a lot of confusion, particularly by the folks doing the name-calling, about what pirates really are. Pirates aren’t...
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Top stories: January 23-27, 2012
Here’s a look at the top stories published across O’Reilly sites this week. On pirates and piracyMike Loukides: “I’m not willing to have the next Bach, Beethoven, or Shakespeare post their work online,...
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Strata Week: The Megaupload seizure and user data
Here are a few of the data stories that caught my attention this week. Megaupload’s seizure and questions about controlling user data When the file-storage and sharing site Megaupload had its domain...
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Publishing News: Let's remember why we got into this business
In this special edition of the Publishing Week in Review, I’m taking a look at highlights from the 2012 Tools of Change for Publishing Conference held in New York City earlier this week. Publishing...
View ArticlePiracy is not a pricing signal
The comments to yesterday’s Four Short Links threw up a predictable response from “Frankster”: So why don’t you put your money where your mouth is. Why don’t you put torrent links next to all of your...
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Publishing News: The threat of censorship, from a non-government entity
Here are the publishing-related stories that caught my attention this week. Censorship disguised as a business decision The PayPal-as-content-police saga continues this week. Publishers Weekly reports...
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Creativity isn't one size fits all, so why is copyright?
In a recent video interview, Google’s senior copyright counsel Bill Patry said different types of work require different copyright terms: “Creativity isn’t one size fits all — books aren’t like movies,...
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Publishing News: No dismissal for Apple, Macmillan and Penguin
This week brought a couple of important updates in the lawsuits against Apple, Macmillan and Penguin. First, the antitrust lawsuit filed by 16 States’ Attorneys General saw 17 more states jump in, and...
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Old-school DRM and new-school analytics
Download our new free report “Music Science: How Data and Digital Content are Changing Music,” by Alistair Croll, to learn more about music, data, and music science. In researching how data is changing...
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