Napster's children: time to walk the plank?
After Rory's run in with YouTube this week over his home vid - we're dipping our toe into this vast debate.
We're looking at the ideas and business models the UK music industry is coming up with in an attempt to develop legal services that still give music fans what they what.
According to a recent survey conducted for British Music Rights, 80% of those asked want a legal peer to peer service.
Let us know if you've some knowledge or experience in this field, have ideas on people we should talk to or your own solution on how the music industry can deal with this.
You may be interested to read about some of the debates they've been having at MusicTank - an independent body who describes itself as 'a business development network for the UK music industry'.
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Why don't we scrap the idea of 'intellectual copyright'? Who owns an idea, a joke, a riff? If it's in the public domain, it's gone - free as a bird!!!
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IP is very important if the world is going to continue.
Take the simple mobile phone! It consists of many parts: electronics software etc. All are provided by their own IP suppliers and the expertise is concentrated into small companies. These sell their components to multiple manufacturers.
If IP protection did not exist then neither would these companies and no single company could have created the mobile phone alone.
Anything from the DVD player electronics to music and films that it plays is IP.
The only difference is the ease at which it can be stolen.
It would be like saying stealing apples is OK, but stealing and an orchard is wrong. People want apples just like they want music.
In particular to music, the correct financial models already exist. The last video I made used "free" backing music from a young musician that advertised his work on the web. His only requirement was that I added a credit on the video directing people to his web site.
Using this model he got his name out and people liked his music. Now he sells his new products as they are in demand.
He built his income without big record companies and only because of the existence of IP rules. Without these rules what would he have done to make money?
Without the rules would he have had to choose a more environmentally damaging career?
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