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Wednesday, June 16, 2004

The MPAA appears to be edging towards a conversion to RIAA-like tactics.

CD prices tended to move up and down together. Oligopoly anyone?
A clever trick to avoid paying royalties will likely never see the light of day.

BBC archive going online. In the United Kingdom, anyone who owns a television must pay a BBC-allocated fee, so the public owns its programming. Contrast this with, say, IP in America, where the NIH funds most drug research, but pharma reaps the profits.

Nice article in the Toronto Star.

--Ari

posted by Ari F. | 4:03 PM

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