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A Million Medicis:Funding the Content Revolution
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David Dylan ThomasSenior Content Strategist,
EPAM
@movie_pundit
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Discuss Early, Discuss Often
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Capitol Records Complaint
“ReDigi makes and assists its users in making systematic, repeated and unauthorized reproductions and distributions of Plaintiffs copyrighted sound recordings.”
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“Digital Files Are Not Material Objects Subject to the Distribution Right”
“The statute is quite plain. It is clear that digital music files, which are not material objects, are therefore neither copies nor phonorecords, hence not subject to the distribution right. If they were to be considered material objects, copies, or phonorecords within the meaning of 17 U.S.C. 106(3), they would also have to be considered material objects, copies, or phonorecords within the meaning of 17 U.S.C. 109(a), hence exempt anyway – in ReDigi’s case – under the First Sale Doctrine (discussed infra).”
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No Dice, Grandma
“It is beside the point that the original phonorecord no longer exists. It matters only that a new phonorecord has been created.”
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What the Hell Is a “Phonorecord”?
“…material objects in which sounds, other than those accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, are fixed.”
-United States Copyright Act of 1976
(yup, 1976)
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No Dice, Grandma
“It is beside the point that the original phonorecord no longer exists. It matters only that a new phonorecord has been created.”
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How to Resell Your MP3’s
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How to Resell Your MP3’s
All you have to do is sell your “ 'particular' phonorecord, be it a computer hard disk, iPod, or other memory device onto which the file was originally downloaded.”
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How we pay for a thing is tied to how we think about that thing.
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Desirable + Scarce = Expensive
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Desirable + Scarce = Expensive
Desirable + Common = Cheap
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Desirable + Scarce = Expensive
Desirable + Common = Cheap
Desirable + Infinitely Replicable = ???
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Artificial Scarcity
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Artificial Scarcity
This. Breaks. Easily.
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Record companies want you to treat digital goods like physical goods, until they don’t.
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Is there any such thing as a used mp3?
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Even These Children Figured It Out
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“Physical copies of works degrade with time and use, making used copies less desirable than new ones. Digital information does not degrade, and can be reproduced perfectly on a recipient’s computer. The ‘used’ copy is just as desirable as (in fact, is indistinguishable from) a new copy of the same work. Time, space, effort and cost no longer act as barriers to the movement of copies, since digital copies can be transmitted nearly instantaneously anywhere in the world with minimal effort and negligible cost. The need to transport physical copies of works, which acts as a natural brake on the effect of resales on the copyright owner’s market, no longer exists in the realm of digital transmissions.”
- U.S. Copyright Office Report to Congress, 2001
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Entropy is what keeps the physical market afloat.
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In digital content, the idea of an “original” and a “copy” ceases to exist,
and we don’t have an economy for that.
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In digital content, the idea of an “original” and a “copy” ceases to exist,
and we don’t have an economy for that.
(But we do have a way to think about it….)
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3 Kinds of Sharing
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3 Kinds of Sharing
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3 Kinds of Sharing
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3 Kinds of Sharing
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3 Kinds of Sharing
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3 Kinds of Sharing
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Content = Information
• It doesn’t just represent information
• It doesn’t just contain information
• It doesn’t just point to information
• It is itself information
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Is there a way to think about monetizing content that aligns with
its fundamental nature?
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Is there a way to think about monetizing content that aligns with
its fundamental nature?
And what we like to do with content?
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Content as a Service
This Is Not Scarce This Is
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Crowdsourced Patronage
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Crowdsourced Patronage
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Crowdsourced Patronage
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Crowdsourced Patronage
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Crowdsourced Patronage
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Crowdsourced Patronage
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“It’s about horses, not races.”
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Who would you subscribe to?
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How do we discover new talent?
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Spoken Reasons has 1,000,000 subscribers on YouTube.
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Spoken Reasons has 1,000,000 subscribers on YouTube.
If only 5% of them agreed to give him $1 a month, he would make $600,000 a year.
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Spoken Reasons has 1,000,000 subscribers on YouTube.
If only 5% of them agreed to give him $1 a month, he would make $600,000 a year.
He doesn’t need Hollywood…
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Spoken Reasons has 1,000,000 subscribers on YouTube.
If only 5% of them agreed to give him $1 a month, he would make $600,000 a year.
He doesn’t need Hollywood… …Hollywood needs him.
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Who would subscribe to you?
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What does this new ecosystem look like?
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Audience
CENTRALIZED RISK
Producer / Distributor
Pricing
DRM
Artist
Final Cut
Gatekeeping
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Audience(Artists)Final Cut
Creative Commons
Pricing
Gatekeeping
Platform
DISTRIBUTED RISK
Artist
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Where this doesn’t work
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Creative Middle Class
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Guess what costs $7 million?
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Guess what costs $7 million?
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The Hybrid Approach
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The Hybrid Approach
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The Hybrid Approach
"It’s a massive growth area. We’re very excited about the creativity of consumers using our repertoire and creating their own versions of our videos.”
- Francis Keeling, Global Head of Digital Business for Universal Music Group
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The Hybrid Approach
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What is a song?
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Open Discussion
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Keep the discussion going…
David Dylan Thomas
#NewMedicis
@movie_pundit