The Risks of Writing
Who knew writing a book required a law degree?
Aspirations & Anxieties – How Authors Consider Copyright
How do authors consider the threats to their livelihoods, and how are they managing the opportunities? What, in other words, do the actual copyright holders think about copyright?
Can A Robot Hold a Copyright?
You can’t have original expression without intent, and you can’t have intent without self-awareness.
Redefining Publishing for the Digital Age
Facing the daunting challenge of digital transformation requires a publisher to rely as much on redefining and reimagining the experiences of customers, employees, and other stakeholders as on the underlying solution.
YouTube Knows Who You Are
The world’s largest music streaming platform is also a search engine and a video platform – YouTube. The Alphabet-owned company, which Google acquired in 2006, holds a 25% share of the streaming music market.
The Future of Digital First Sale
In an era when streaming is overtaking downloads, how much does First Sale even matter?
Pro-Digital & Pro-Copyright
There is huge value in the curation and the discovery of important information. And there’s a gap in terms of how that is then turned into a commercial model.
Manga Translates Infringement
In the ’90s, scanlation was still a fan passion project. At some point, that changed. The scanlation sites became more about piracy. And they just don’t care.
Machine-To-Machine Media E-Commerce
Until code entirely does away with contracts human beings will continue to add a value that no machine ever can.
Mobile Reading Habits Require New Approach to Publishing
“Your smartphone likes message-based information. It doesn’t handle long, endless scrolling of data very well. So, the first thing we looked at is how do we disaggregate information and then put it back together?”