The Knowledge Economy Trap Professor Jonathan Taplin Director,
A Short Story
What does America make? “We can’t make a toaster anymore, a DVD player or even a decent faucet, but we can create desire. We can make fetching footwear, beautiful games, hot TV, great rock and roll records and dazzling movies. Such artifacts constitute our principal contribution to global commerce.”-Dave Hickey
The IP Economy Movies and Television Music On Line Video Video Games Computer Software E-books Pharmaceutical Patents Fashion Trademarks
Speed Moves Entertainment
Mobile Broadband
File Sharing Proliferates
A Worldwide Problem
The Conventional Wisdom Technology Diplomatic
Free
Who Benefits from Free?
Free Movies (Google Search)
Free Music (Baidu Search)
Who Get’s Hurt
Censorship?
Piracy and Legislation SOPA was a bad law. Entertainment & Technology do not have to be at loggerheads. Google & Baidu could take voluntary measures right now that would help.
What Big Search could do We won’t sell ads on pirate websites We won’t have our search engine link to pirate websites that can’t prove they have legitimate licenses to the content they host We will stop pretending we can’t control what gets posted on You Tube.
Music Publishing as a Model
Global ISP Content Fee $3 per month per sub=$70 Billion
One Last Thought