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1 year ago

in Copyright’s Path on The Technology Liberation Front
Nice post, well done.

...This is not a corner kick away from a paper I published in late 2006, titled "is the price of recorded music heading for zero?" and available here:

www.mcps-prs-alliance.co.uk/economics

My paper neatly sets up the 2x2 matrix and walks the reader through where the physical cd used to belong (private good) and where its contents now appear (public good) to many torrent tracking teens and upwards.

What I try to do is to get people thinking about an effecient toll, in the economic sense, as opposed to an enforceable toll in the legal sense.

Since publishing the paper, much of my work has been on the secondary 'black' market, and I would refer you to a second short paper titled 'Album Base' which I co-wrote with Paul Sanders, (one of the best brains I've ever met when dealing with these complex issues). This will offer a useful tool for understanding the options that might exist when thinking about an effective and effecient toll, which allows creators to be compensated.

Given its a tech audience, I'd warn that your book risks talking to the converted, but ignoring those you need to understand. Copyright and Tech work in different environments, at different tempos and often have assymetric objectives. To prevent your book from becoming another "also ran" (there are many) you really need to bridge that divide. MTV is a classic example, as they built a massive ad funded business on 'free music' without comensating the creators who's works arguabley drove the business. That should help let the penny drop... Its a supply chain issue. Again, I'd highlight the work of Paul Sander's Play Louder project as one such example - but it aint been easy.

Lastly, don't let music dominate your thinking. I'm biased, for obvious reasons, but you will find that the problems the music bizniz has been grappling with for the past decade are already begining to filter into television (check www.tioti.com for a very interesting development), film and printed press.

Happy to offer comments on your first draft if it helps, best of luck!

WP

Ps: believe me, the term rivalrous is a night mare, why not opt with "scarce/ non scarce" and apply a healthy footnote.
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