Roger Luethi wrote:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:08:52 -0400, Maury Markowitz wrote:
$100 million is a drop in the bucket as far as copyrights are concerned.
Oh balogna. That would easily pay for a takeover of Jupiter Media, for instance.
Actually, that seems more like a measly third of their market cap. Even iStockphoto went for $50 million. And that's only images.
How about buying out the major scientific publishers and their copyright on our primary sources? $100 million are at least an order of magnitude short of what it would take to buy only one of Thomson, Reed Elsevier, or Springer Science.
Yes, drop in the bucket describes it pretty well.
Yes, it does describe it well if you are including every thing under copyright in the bucket. Or perhaps if you man that copyright will still exist (which seems to bug a few people). But, in terms of the significance or usefulness of what could be done with it, then I think "drop in the bucket" is excessively trivializing.
SKL