Redbox, RealDVD and Hollywood’s long struggle with consumer demand, Part II

In my last post, I discussed the Hollywood studios’ long history of being willing to frustrate consumer demand in order to maximize their own profit, or at least to do what they believed would maximize their profit. For decades, in fact, it defined their basic business model: starve demand in one window or market to Read More …

Owning more of the news

In thinking some more about Judge Richard Posner’s controversial suggestion the other day that Congress might need to expand copyright law to prohibit linking and paraphrasing news stories without permission in order to “save” newspapers from the ravages of bloggers and aggregators, I was reminded of a talk given last month at the World Copyright Summit by Read More …