A través del blog Listening Post de la revista Wired, nos llega un interesante articulo sobre una posible respuesta a los problemas de rentabilidad de la industria musical versus la innovación en la red:
Online music startups have two options in the race to profitability: They can get permission from all relevant copyright holders before uploading a single song, or they can rely on a combination of luck and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act until they are either acquired or earn enough to pay for proper licensing. Copyright holders occasionally sue new businesses into the ground or, as is growing more commonplace, use legal pressure to force maturing startups into surrendering an equity stake.
Why go through the heartache? This lengthy, complicated process is scary for startups, clumsy for copyright holders, and tends to leave indie bands and labels out of the equation.
Will Page, chief economist for the MCPS-PRS Alliance (a U.K. royalty-collection group), and David Touve, a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt and former Lycos/Sony/AOL employee, have proposed a novel solution (.pdf) to the problem: a music license specifically designed for startups that would give copyright holders an equity stake in the businesses.
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