On thursday the 4th of April the Swedish Parliament held a hearing on “Copyright on the internet”. Three of the Digital Renaissance contributors were there to tell our views and give our perspective on the issue. There’s a proposal in the making from the Swedish government that copyright holders should be able to get information from ISPs about who’s behind an IP address that the parliament should decide on later this year. To learn more about the current situation in this field the parliament invited different business organizations, lawyers, customer ...Read More
You have all heard about the long tail. All of you have now also heard about how the 'biz' as in the 'music biz' and the 'movie biz' was slow to react. They were shutting down when they should have been opening up. And so forth.
They are now on the case though. Last week we were in a hearing at the swedish parliament where the topic was "Copyright Law on the internet". A lot of things were said, one line that got stuck in my head was when a guy ...Read More
The music business has always been a business based on gut feeling, on individuals with specific competences and the right "feeling" for what is going to be popular or not. The different parts of the industry has used existing data and statistics like number of airplays on traditional radio, record sales figures and ticket sales to get an understanding of how popular a specific artist is and make decisions based on those numbers.
But, music usage is changing rapidly.
New generations of music fans are not buying any records, are not listening ...Read More
