Tag Archives: Legislation

Scarcity And The Movie Industry

By C.G. | Published: January 15, 2012

Fred Wilson on the movie industry: I am sure there was a time when scarcity was a good business model for the film industry. And I am sure that many of the leaders of the film industry came of age during that time. I understand their muscle memory in terms of the scarcity business model. [...]

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Would Obama Sign SOPA?

By C.G. | Published: December 27, 2011

From Mike Masnick of TechDirt in response to a post by Arik Hesseldahl on wether Obama would sign SOPA/PIPA into law: Heading into what may be a difficult election year, and dependent on money from Hollywood and unions (the big Democratic funders), this is an easy call. He’d sign it in a heartbeat. Any bill [...]

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The New Model Is Working

By C.G. | Published: May 19, 2011

Fred Wilson on speaking against the PROTECT IP (son of COCIA) law being proposed: Technology is a genie that cannot be put back into a bottle. We are better served imagining, inventing, and financing new models and new services that will allow creative activities to thrive in the digital world… There is a new model [...]

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Mandating Features

By C.G. | Published: August 16, 2010

Gary Shapiro from the Consumer Electronics Association on the RIAA and NAB’s wish that the Federal Government force Apple and other companies to include FM receivers in their products: Rather than adapt to the digital marketplace, NAB and RIAA act like buggy-whip industries that refuse to innovate and seek to impose penalties on those that [...]

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