On 29/01/07, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I forwarded my reply to an old friend, Miles Metcalfe
More interesting comments from Miles: "Never in the history of creative product have rights holders contemplated or been allowed to get away with restrictions against the affordances of their medium - nor should they now. I would argue that three things reward rights holders for the risk of easy copying: one, digital distribution is reaches new market (reaching consumers that would otherwise not have consumed); two, digital distribution significantly reduces costs (by transferring the cost of instantiating the product from the producer to the consumer); three, digital distribution allows the creation of new business models, and therefore extra avenues for monetisation. These three things are sufficient gain to offset the duplication risk - and organisations like the BBC should be telling rights holders so." -- Regards, Dave - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
