A quick look at my record collection suggests I probably have about 500 CDs that are burned version of discs that friends bought, copied between 1992 (when I started listening to music) and 2004 (when I stopped buying CDs). I’d guess I’ve probably copied 500 of my own purchases for other people over that same […]
Entries Tagged as 'Intellectual property'
RIAA nonsense
October 5th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Music · Intellectual property · New models
The latest triumph for consumer control from…Radiohead
October 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments
This is huge news if you care at all about how traditional media companies and marketing approaches are adapting to a digital world. Radiohead, an enormously popular British band that’s long been able to balance both critical acclaim and underground cred with mass appeal, announced last night that customers will be able to set their […]
Tags: Consumer Control · Music · Intellectual property · New models · Matt Creamer
Wal-Mart tagline fiasco
September 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments
I spent three days last week trying to track down rumors that Wal-Mart’s new ad campaign, created by an agency selected in January following a review, was something of a composite of strategies and ideas created by agencies who lost the review. In this story in today’s Ad Age, I concluded that the tagline was […]
Tags: Intellectual property · Advertising · Ad Agencies · Matt Creamer