A New Model for Music Finance
Josh Kaplan proposes an alternative business model to the “360 deal.” By taking advantage of finance structures more traditionally employed by software and tech start-ups, musicians can partner with equity…
Elite Knockoffs and Nascent Designers
The current debate over increased protection for fashion design is largely focused on whether additional protection is necessary or if it is actually counter-productive for the industry. The proper contrast…
Mixed Signals: Takedown but Don’t Filter? A Case for Constructive Authorization
Scribd, a social publishing website, is being sued for copyright infringement for allowing the uploading of infringing works, and also for using the works themselves to filter for copyrighted work…
Fairy Tales, Free Use, and the Anti-Streisand Effect
A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to walk down the street to the IFC Center to see director Randy Moore’s film Escape from Tomorrow. It’s not generally…