Category: Business

Copyright’s stakeholders don’t fit in a room and must include the public, by definition http://t.co/W16xWNZK

People like the MPAA’s Chris Dodds (who only opens his mouth on the topic to lie) and now Hollywood Super agent Arri Emmanuel want to sit down in a room with “the government” and “Silicon valley” to craft a “deal” on copyright. What they consistently miss is that every one of us has a stake in this: we’re consumers and producers of material. The group formerly known as the “audience” are no longer passive consumers of whatever  the metaphoric “Hollywood” wants to hand out.

Content’s Never Been a Profit Center,Why Should It Be Any Different Online? http://t.co/oJUx3r7y

Yes, viewers are moving online, but despite billions of connected devices out there, it’s unreasonable to think that in the slugfest between TV and the Internet, TV will lose.  But the fact remains that with falling rates, the pre-roll isn’t enough to fund online content.

For content to survive — let alone thrive — it needs to make economic sense.

That’s how the article starts and continues with a good analysis of why pre-roll and sponsorship may not be enough.

Chris Dodd Rewrites Hollywood’s History To Pretend That It Came About Because Of IP Laws http://t.co/rLKcxW4i Exactly the opposite of fact!

Jimmy Wales to Hollywood: You’re Doomed (And Not Because of Piracy) http://t.co/HjtRsVrW

Now anyone who predicts the imminent doom of “Hollywood” is probably going to be wrong, but that doesn’t mean the long term trend isn’t in that direction.