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What Happened to the Future?
February 9th | 2012 By
Several days back, I treated myself to a blast from the past and watched Back to the Future again. For a child of the Eighties, such as myself, it’s a nostalgic window into a better, simpler time when the future still looked bright.1 With the mov…
Read MoreFebruary 9, 2012 Tags: Paid to Play, posted by Oliver Wright, The New Music Biz
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Value
January 25th | 2012 By
I read two things today that made something go click in my head and I now understand the Internet. Seriously. Why couldn’t somebody have told me earlier? Don’t worry, I’ll be… ahem… sharing it with you. Let’s start w…
Read MoreJanuary 25, 2012 Tags: Paid to Play, posted by Oliver Wright, The New Music Biz
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Błąd w polskim tłumaczeniu ACTA
January 24th | 2012 By
Note to regular readers: I wrote this post for the benefit of people living in Poland, as I had spotted a serious error in the Polish translation of ACTA. Normal TCM service will return shortly. Porównując polską i angielską wersję ACTA natrafiłe…
Read MoreJanuary 24, 2012 Tags: Paid to Play, posted by Oliver Wright, The New Music Biz
Category: ACTA, błąd w tłumaczeniu, Copyright, Creative, Digital Media, MultiMedia, Music, OLIVER WRIGHT No Comments
The Illumination that Comes from Darkness
January 24th | 2012 By
Thankfully, the English Wikipedia is once again visible, to the delight of schoolkids and medical students everywhere in the English speaking world (sorry, couldn’t resist). It remains to be seen what – if any – effect the blackout wi…
Read MoreJanuary 24, 2012 Tags: Paid to Play, posted by Oliver Wright, The New Music Biz
Category: Commentary, Copyright, Creative, Digital Media, information, monopoly, MultiMedia, Music, OLIVER WRIGHT, Wikipedia No Comments
Interesting Times
January 20th | 2012 By
The past couple days were action-packed, to say the least. It got even worse when I stopped following the SOPA brouhaha to get some work done. I have two outstanding drafts waiting for completion – one on the Wikipedia blackout and its ramificati…
Read MoreJanuary 20, 2012 Tags: Paid to Play, posted by Oliver Wright, The New Music Biz
Category: Commentary, Copyright, Creative, Digital Media, future, Internet, MegaUpload, MultiMedia, Music, OLIVER WRIGHT, PROTECT-IP, Regulation, SOPA No Comments
Why I’m Not Blacking Out to Protest SOPA
January 17th | 2012 By
Reason 1 (obvious to anyone who reads this blog): I’m not anti-SOPA Reason 2: I’m not American, nor do I live in the US. It would be rather inappropriate for me to tell Americans how to run their country. Reason 3: Why should I black out my…
Read MoreJanuary 17, 2012 Tags: Paid to Play, posted by Oliver Wright, The New Music Biz
Category: blackout, Blog, Commentary, Copyright, Creative, Digital Media, MultiMedia, Music, OLIVER WRIGHT, SOPA No Comments
Put Up or Shut The F… Up
January 11th | 2012 By
Time for a rant. I’ve just about had it up to here with all the whining about SOPA is going to hurl us all into the Dark Ages, destroy the Internet and bring about the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar. Seriously, no more! It may not be my …
Read MoreJanuary 11, 2012 Tags: Paid to Play, posted by Oliver Wright, The New Music Biz
Category: Commentary, Copyright, Creative, Digital Media, MultiMedia, Music, OLIVER WRIGHT, rant, SOPA No Comments
A Realistic Look at Spotify and Streaming
January 6th | 2012 By
It seems that we’re primed for discussing Spotify and subscription streaming in the coming months, so I thought I might get my thoughts on the matter out there now. The short version is that I don’t think that the model is bad as such, but …
Read MoreJanuary 6, 2012 Tags: Paid to Play, posted by Oliver Wright, The New Music Biz
Category: analysis, Copyright, Creative, Digital Media, Economics, MultiMedia, Music, Music business, OLIVER WRIGHT, Spotify, subscription streaming No Comments
The End of History?
January 3rd | 2012 By
This being my first post of 2012, I thought I’d depart from our usual fare and consider a somewhat different topic: the future of books. Have a read of this WSJ article from Nick Carr. Therein, he considers the ease of real-time editing e-books a…
Read MoreJanuary 3, 2012 Tags: Paid to Play, posted by Oliver Wright, The New Music Biz
Category: Commentary, Copyright, Creative, digital, Digital Media, e-books, General, MultiMedia, Music, obsolescence, OLIVER WRIGHT No Comments
What’s Good for G&G Enterprises is Good for Your Country
January 29th | 2012 By OliverWright
This post has been updated to include a link to an illustration of the connections between opponents of SOPA and PROTECT-IP. Scroll to the bottom of the post for details. The ability to perceive patterns can give something quite close to foresight, as …
Read MoreJanuary 29, 2012 Tags: Paid to Play, posted by Oliver Wright, The New Music Biz
Category: Berkman Center, Commentary, Copyright, Creative, Digital Media, European Commission, Google, MultiMedia, Music, OLIVER WRIGHT, piracy, privacy No Comments