My colleague Denis Hancock has a great post on the curious and circular logic of DRM on our Wikinomics blog. Check it out. Abbreviated version below (yes, Denis can be a little long-winded
In February Steve Jobs issued some thoughts on music that were tied mostly to the continued use of DRM. In short, […]
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Curious and circular logic in the DRM debate
March 13th, 2007
Tags: intellectual property · digital music · DRM
Alcatel can’t compete in digital music, so it sues its way to success instead
February 24th, 2007
The jury has weighed in on the Alcatel-Microsoft case, forcing Microsoft to fork over $1.5 billion to Alcatel for violating two audio patents held by Lucent Technologies (which merged with Alcatel). Ironically, the patents cover standards for converting audio into the open MP3 format that spawned the digital music revolution back in the early 1990s. […]
Tags: intellectual property · digital music · MP3