[Direct link for non-Flash devices] Johanna Blakley‘s research concerns itself with the impact of intellectual property rights on cultural production (she also researches the entertainment industry and celebrity culture). In this really interesting TED talk, she looks at how the fashion industry has been affected by its complete lack of IP protection (you can protect [...]
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Profit in performance, not copyright
Newspapers, by Susan Lesch, via Wikimedia Commons Newpapers, as we all know, are in trouble. Their margins eroded by the Internet, incapable of putting forward a business model that can support their transformation onto the web, the current economic recession has thrown the problems of print media into sharp relief, as it has with so [...]
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