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Marc Andreessen To Big, Old Media: You're Screwed
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| In a morning panel session titled “Looking Around the Corner to the Future” –
| which, like all meetings here are closed to the press – Mr. Andreessen told
| the audience, which included many executives from the so-called “old media”
| world, that non-digital businesses are toast.
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| “He said, ‘If you have old media, you should sell,’” according to one
| attendee, who spoke anonymously because the sessions are off-the-record. “If
| you own newspapers, sell. If you own TV stations, sell. If you own a movie
| studio, sell.”
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http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/marc-andreessen-to-big-old-media-you-re-screwed
Rivers dry up. They just try to change laws as if they deserve to keep old
business models alive.
Viacom "wants to know what Google staff are YouTubing"
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| Viacom wants to know which YouTube videos have been uploaded by members of
| Google's staff, in what could be a potentially explosive aspect of its
| copyright infrigement claim against the search giant.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/212070/viacom-wants-to-know-what-google-staff-are-youtubing.html
Recent:
Recording Industry Decries AM-FM Broadcasting as 'A Form of Piracy'
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| But now the debate is getting meaner; there's more at stake as the recording
| industry seeks new income avenues in the wake of wanton peer-to-peer piracy
| and declining CD sales in part due to the iPod and satellite radio. A U.S.
| House subcommittee could vote as early as Thursday on a royalty measure.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/recording-indus.html
Lessig: Don't fall into the four-year trap
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| On a massive display screen, he loaded up a portrait of legendary New England
| statesman and eventual Secretary of State Daniel Webster, whose professional
| conflicts of interest would have been enough to make even the most lukewarm
| of political bloggers cringe.
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| "Bribery wasn't even a crime in our Congress until 1853. The 19th century was
| a cesspool of this kind of corruption," Lessig explained. "Up to 25 percent
| of the voters literally sold their votes. I'm not talking about a golden
| past."
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| [...]
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| And then there's the big one: global warming, and the "junk science" research
| put forth at the behest of the oil industry.
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| "Just putting money on the table removes the conditions of trust," Lessig
| said. "Money destroys the opportunity for trust. Eighty-eight percent of the
| people in my district believe they have their votes bought."
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| [...]
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| He left his role as founder and CEO of copyright reform advocacy group
| Creative Commons in April to focus on Change Congress.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9975958-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Related:
RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates
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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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