Comments on: Must read: lawmakers threaten financial aid over digital piracy http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2007/11/18/must-read-lawmakers-threaten-financial-aid-over-digital-piracy/ Random musings from a technologist Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Liberating Digital Content http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/2007/11/18/must-read-lawmakers-threaten-financial-aid-over-digital-piracy/comment-page-1/#comment-1404 Liberating Digital Content Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:38:09 +0000 http://patthorntonfiles.com/blog/?p=82#comment-1404 Ugh... Such legislation shows that both industry and lawmakers are stuck "inside the box". What about selling rights into the public domain? If a copyright holder gets a big enough pile of money at some point in the life-cycle of an album (or movie or software app), then selected rights to make and sell copies could be released into the PD, turning what is now digital piracy into royalty-free fair use. The trick is to build a big enough pile of money... That's what my company (Propagate Ltd) is trying to do. I won't spam your comment field with a full, self-serving description (and I apologize if writing even this much is considered inappropriate); the site describes itself (I hope). If you or someone else would like to write an article on my company and how it is trying to create a new marketing paradigm for digital content, then I would be a very, very eager interviewee. Now, if I can just recruit a top-drawer management team so I can attract capital investment so I can pay the management team... Jeffry R. Fisher President, Propagate Digital Content, Limited Ugh… Such legislation shows that both industry and lawmakers are stuck “inside the box”. What about selling rights into the public domain? If a copyright holder gets a big enough pile of money at some point in the life-cycle of an album (or movie or software app), then selected rights to make and sell copies could be released into the PD, turning what is now digital piracy into royalty-free fair use.

The trick is to build a big enough pile of money…

That’s what my company (Propagate Ltd) is trying to do. I won’t spam your comment field with a full, self-serving description (and I apologize if writing even this much is considered inappropriate); the site describes itself (I hope). If you or someone else would like to write an article on my company and how it is trying to create a new marketing paradigm for digital content, then I would be a very, very eager interviewee.

Now, if I can just recruit a top-drawer management team so I can attract capital investment so I can pay the management team…

Jeffry R. Fisher
President, Propagate Digital Content, Limited

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