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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
R/evolution 
Getting beyond transaction alone
| | Okay. So now let's ignore the record companies for a minute. Instead, lets look behind them, back up the supply chain, to the first sources of music: the artists. Part of the system we need is already built for these sources, through Creative Commons. By this system, creative sources can choose licenses that specify the freedoms carried by their work, and also specify what can and cannot be done with that work. These licenses are readable by machines as well as lawyers. That's a great start on the supply side. |
| | Now let's look at the same work from the demand side. What can we do -- as music lovers, or as customers -- to find, use and in some cases pay for, licensed work? Some mechanisms are there, but nothing yet that is entirely in our control -- that reciprocates what Creative Commons does for artists. Yes, we can go to websites, subscribe to music services, use iTunes or other intermediators and deal with artists inside those systems. But there still isn't anything that allows us to deal directly, on our own terms, with artists or their intermediaries. Put another way, we don't yet have the personal means for establishing relationships with artists. |
| | I have some ideas about that. Some are there. Some are still in the works. |
Quote du jour
| | There is no future in which bits will get harder to copy. Instead of spending billions on technologies that attack paying customers, the studios should be confronting that reality and figuring out how to make a living in a world where copying will get easier and easier. They're like blacksmiths meeting to figure out how to protect the horseshoe racket by sabotaging railroads. |
| | The railroad is coming. The tracks have been laid right through the studio gates. |
They're still phone companies at heart
| | Sez here, AT&T leased a crappy old-school phone to an elderly gentleman for over $7500 over a span of 30-plus years... |
And there's still a nice beach
| | Dan Gillmor: Keep an eye on Santa Barbara. The future is under way in a city that only looks idyllic. |
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