Rightsholders! Tom Loosemore here, talking about the problems. “They couldn’t find a single program that was entirely cleared wrt rights. “We thought we’d found one concert.” BBC orchestra, check. BBC hall, check. BBC…nope, the composer was on a freelance contract. Next!

Earlier today, Cory Doctorow talked about DRM: it creates dark pockets of content and encourages people to steal.

More to the point, a significant area where we are being blindsided now is by the conflict between the things technology would allow us to do vs old buisness models.

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