There is an interesting interview with Jason Epstein and Dane Neller, chairman and CEO respectively of On Demand Books in New York, at Knowledge@Wharton — with some interesting insights:

“Authorship (…) will remain what it always has been.” — collaborative will remain the exception
Publishers are not innovative and have never been — anecdotic evidence on how […]

When selling copies stopped bringing in big money for the content industry, publishers and other middlemen were looking for new sources of revenue. First there was the blank media tax. Then came suing consumers for consuming content not strictly the way the industry liked it. Now they seem to have found a new way to […]

“Fair use” and other copyright exceptions are worth real money and create real jobs. This is what the CCIA — the Computer & Communication Industry Association — found in a study. Industries that rely on fair use exceptions to copyright law grew faster than the rest of the U.S. economy from 2002 to 2007, expanded […]

The US Department of Government Accountability Office just published an authoritative report on piracy and counterfeited goods entitled “Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods”. This must by, finally, the proof how damaging piracy is to people wanting to make a living from Copyright, Patents and Trademarks. Just skimming […]