Comments on: Intellectual property was the oil of the turn of the century http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/ Multiplication can produce powerful numbers Tue, 22 May 2012 14:18:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Let the Dead Bury their Dead / Commoniser http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/comment-page-1/#comment-36068 Let the Dead Bury their Dead / Commoniser Thu, 27 May 2010 23:49:20 +0000 http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/#comment-36068 [...] and died. But with the walking and talking and conventionally persuasive dead with commodities and intellectual properties don’t sympathise, or you taint the unborn [...] [...] and died. But with the walking and talking and conventionally persuasive dead with commodities and intellectual properties don’t sympathise, or you taint the unborn [...]

]]> By: Let the Dead Bury their Dead « Commoniser http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/comment-page-1/#comment-34657 Let the Dead Bury their Dead « Commoniser Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:47:28 +0000 http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/#comment-34657 [...] and died. But with the walking and talking and conventionally persuasive dead with commodities and intellectual properties don’t sympathise, or you taint the unborn [...] [...] and died. But with the walking and talking and conventionally persuasive dead with commodities and intellectual properties don’t sympathise, or you taint the unborn [...]

]]> By: ray ban 3244 http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/comment-page-1/#comment-25158 ray ban 3244 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:18:11 +0000 http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/#comment-25158 I agree with San Antonio. The y should get what they deserve. I agree with San Antonio. The y should get what they deserve.

]]> By: San Antonio Lawyer http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/comment-page-1/#comment-24659 San Antonio Lawyer Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:56:17 +0000 http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/#comment-24659 It's about time photographers must be paid for their efforts! It’s about time photographers must be paid for their efforts!

]]> By: Copyriot › Flygplatsmetaforen http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/comment-page-1/#comment-21651 Copyriot › Flygplatsmetaforen Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:45:43 +0000 http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/#comment-21651 [...] flygplatsens ekonomi en intressant metafor för att förstå vilka tendenser som begreppet “intellectual property” står för i dagens världsekonomi. (Copyriot försökte en gång lansera begreppet [...] [...] flygplatsens ekonomi en intressant metafor för att förstå vilka tendenser som begreppet “intellectual property” står för i dagens världsekonomi. (Copyriot försökte en gång lansera begreppet [...]

]]> By: Copyriot » Lite mer från Knoxville http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/comment-page-1/#comment-19382 Copyriot » Lite mer från Knoxville Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:12:45 +0000 http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/#comment-19382 [...] Copyriot: Some notes on General Rights Management, en lång text från i höstas som knöt an till oil21-projektet. De har låtit formgivaren Harsh Patel utforma ett 16-sidigt häfte, som distribueras som [...] [...] Copyriot: Some notes on General Rights Management, en lång text från i höstas som knöt an till oil21-projektet. De har låtit formgivaren Harsh Patel utforma ett 16-sidigt häfte, som distribueras som [...]

]]> By: steelneck http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/comment-page-1/#comment-16565 steelneck Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:51:07 +0000 http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/#comment-16565 Yes, just classical supply and demand. As digital cameras became cheaper, better and more people learned to master the "digital darkroom", the supply of good quality useable images increased dramatically. Thus the price went down to commodity price, even if the commercial advertising demand also have gone up a bit with the new medium Internet. In the eighties a photographer could earn quite a lot on good high quality stock images, but that time is long gone. Today stock images is just about exchange money, often licensed "royalty free" - buy once, use forever. The idea is to sell many times for a small fee, rather than sell a few for a big fee - that usually is to not sell at all. But stock agencys use a lot of different models, from managed rights to royalty free and different kinds of subscription solutions. They also focus on different kind of images like nature, conceptual, people, food and what not. The most competitive survive. The income for a pro photographer today is almost completely about charging hours than selling license agreements, stock images could just be seen as a small bonus coming from "leftovers". Average Joe that only occasionally happen to succeed with his digital compact, cannot compete with the pro in the charge by hour game, where the pro has all the hard earned knowledge and experience that delivers. Today that usually goes for the "digital darkroom" too. But of course, there has been a lot wining among old dinosaurs. Some could not adapt, they work with other things today. But some used all the new tech to their advantage and took the opportunities from those unwilling to change, they could deliver what was asked for, usually both faster and cheaper. It is all about manage change well. Yes, just classical supply and demand. As digital cameras became cheaper, better and more people learned to master the “digital darkroom”, the supply of good quality useable images increased dramatically. Thus the price went down to commodity price, even if the commercial advertising demand also have gone up a bit with the new medium Internet.

In the eighties a photographer could earn quite a lot on good high quality stock images, but that time is long gone. Today stock images is just about exchange money, often licensed “royalty free” – buy once, use forever. The idea is to sell many times for a small fee, rather than sell a few for a big fee – that usually is to not sell at all. But stock agencys use a lot of different models, from managed rights to royalty free and different kinds of subscription solutions. They also focus on different kind of images like nature, conceptual, people, food and what not. The most competitive survive.

The income for a pro photographer today is almost completely about charging hours than selling license agreements, stock images could just be seen as a small bonus coming from “leftovers”. Average Joe that only occasionally happen to succeed with his digital compact, cannot compete with the pro in the charge by hour game, where the pro has all the hard earned knowledge and experience that delivers. Today that usually goes for the “digital darkroom” too. But of course, there has been a lot wining among old dinosaurs. Some could not adapt, they work with other things today. But some used all the new tech to their advantage and took the opportunities from those unwilling to change, they could deliver what was asked for, usually both faster and cheaper. It is all about manage change well.

]]> By: martin http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/comment-page-1/#comment-16556 martin Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:24:39 +0000 http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/#comment-16556 it was never so much a "digital gap", as a "technological gap" between storage and reproduction. The CD was digital also in 1985, but the content could not be circulated as information until a few years later. This is the technological gap, where all business activity throughout history has in one way or another been thriving. Ask Manuel De Landas ;-) it was never so much a “digital gap”, as a “technological gap” between storage and reproduction. The CD was digital also in 1985, but the content could not be circulated as information until a few years later. This is the technological gap, where all business activity throughout history has in one way or another been thriving. Ask Manuel De Landas ;-)

]]> By: Jonas http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/comment-page-1/#comment-16545 Jonas Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:04:24 +0000 http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/#comment-16545 If “IP is the new oil,” just look at how world real-term oil prices constantly fell throughout the postwar Fordist economy (up until the oil crisis, ca 1972). This was what lubricated those golden years of Western prosperity (of course at the expense of the environment). So, in the current post-Fordist, “immaterial” economy what we are seeing is also a form of inflation, but of course much more radical - because oil cannot after all be copied, and information can. But all this cheap information is lubricating society! The externalities of digitization are much more beneficial to society than those dirty, industrial, analogue, limited-stock 20th century economic logics. Moreover, the current Web 2.0-hyped Eve of the Amateurs will soon be over, since there is an inflation of quality going on too: when all this content around you turns out to be so unbelievably cheap (in the *crappy* sense), you once again turn to the finer things in life... If “IP is the new oil,” just look at how world real-term oil prices constantly fell throughout the postwar Fordist economy (up until the oil crisis, ca 1972). This was what lubricated those golden years of Western prosperity (of course at the expense of the environment).
So, in the current post-Fordist, “immaterial” economy what we are seeing is also a form of inflation, but of course much more radical – because oil cannot after all be copied, and information can. But all this cheap information is lubricating society! The externalities of digitization are much more beneficial to society than those dirty, industrial, analogue, limited-stock 20th century economic logics.
Moreover, the current Web 2.0-hyped Eve of the Amateurs will soon be over, since there is an inflation of quality going on too: when all this content around you turns out to be so unbelievably cheap (in the *crappy* sense), you once again turn to the finer things in life…

]]> By: Johan http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/comment-page-1/#comment-16535 Johan Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:04:25 +0000 http://copyriot.se/2008/01/25/intellectual-property-was-the-oil-of-the-turn-of-the-century/#comment-16535 Or compare it to the golden age of porn (if there ever was one). In "Porr - en bästsäljande historia", Mattias Andersson similarly argues that Private Media Group's IPOs failed because they were based on the fundamental misconception that a giant stock of pornographic images is a unique and valuable asset -- in an era when literally anyone can become his own porn star/producer/distributor, or for that matter, can access endless amounts of free porn online. To judge by Andersson's book, the same holds true for most of the porn industry and the only companies making big money on porn are telcos and cable providers. Or compare it to the golden age of porn (if there ever was one). In “Porr – en bästsäljande historia”, Mattias Andersson similarly argues that Private Media Group’s IPOs failed because they were based on the fundamental misconception that a giant stock of pornographic images is a unique and valuable asset — in an era when literally anyone can become his own porn star/producer/distributor, or for that matter, can access endless amounts of free porn online. To judge by Andersson’s book, the same holds true for most of the porn industry and the only companies making big money on porn are telcos and cable providers.

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