[Foundation-l] ASCAP comes out against "copyleft"

[WJhonson at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/1/2010 9:49:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
yannfo at gmail.com writes:


> The point is that the publishing industry _has_ to review its economic 
> model
> with the new technical situation which is the Internet, and whether it
> publishes music, video or text. >>
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Yann has hit it right on the head.
You can't plug every hole in the dam, while a guy down the row is busy 
opening up a few new holes.

However what you can do, is realize that people are willing to use your 
site only (cbs.com) to view old episodes of shows where you can exert full 
control over what advertisements they see, and whether they have to make a 
micropayment and so on.

What doesn't work in today's environment, is stating that the sole way of 
obtaining the content is through an exorbitantly priced single hard-to-access 
channel.  The channel of choice today is the online channel and publishers 
need to figure out how to work with it, to both protect their copyright AND 
provide access.

Some publishers have figured it out, some are idiots and deserve what they 
get.
The simplest way to stop bootlegging, is to provide access at a reasonable 
cost.