It?s Citizens United taken to its perversely illogical conclusion: To politicians and lobbyists, not only are corporations people, they?re the only people.
According to two executives at Sony Music, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter, the price increase was the result of an error by a Sony employee in Britain, and that the company gave no orders for prices to be raised on Ms. Houston?s music.
Re "You no longer have to sell fans what you want them to buy. You can sell them what they want to buy." This is the key distinction between business models based on monopoly control (i.e., Copyright) vs business models based on competition. It's why Apple invented iTunes while the labels were saying "You can't compete with free!"
Prior art
Before there was Yahoo and before there was Facebook there was The Globe at Cornell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGlobe.com
Others, too. Most, perhaps all, of these patents should never have been granted.
The only thing more disruptive than the Internet is the broken patent office.
The plural of "nerd" isn't "the tech industry"
It?s Citizens United taken to its perversely illogical conclusion: To politicians and lobbyists, not only are corporations people, they?re the only people.
bit.ly/x2CzQy
When musicians hated Hollywood
http://bit.ly/zD8iv2
Alternate headline
Court won't reverse USCG troll charges.
NYTimes reports "human error"
http://tinyurl.com/7778arq
According to two executives at Sony Music, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter, the price increase was the result of an error by a Sony employee in Britain, and that the company gave no orders for prices to be raised on Ms. Houston?s music.
Buying and selling
Re "You no longer have to sell fans what you want them to buy. You can sell them what they want to buy." This is the key distinction between business models based on monopoly control (i.e., Copyright) vs business models based on competition. It's why Apple invented iTunes while the labels were saying "You can't compete with free!"
If you can't imagine a business model not based on absolute control, you end up tying yourself to a railroad track.