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Either "inside" the media machine, or the belly of a whale. Hard to tell which some days.
Big Island Snorkeling from Jon L on Vimeo.
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A more puzzling question is why the producers persist in the face of declining audience figures. Here Wu and Huberman are a little more convincing. They argue that like gamblers, video producers overestimate the chance of winning when the probabilities are small.And as one gets older, one tends to get wiser, and realize the truth of the above statement.
...the success of videos uploaded to YouTube suggest that quality has little affect on success and persistence seems to actually reduce it.Read the short abstract in full - it has some interesting data, and as more studies like this get published, it'll be interesting to see how it changes media creation in the coming generations.
"As an artist, you are now the marketer."Wait a minute, that means you're destroying my carefully crafted business model that relies upon delivering a highly-polished turd wrapped in sticky marketing hooks for "your people" to figure out how to sell... because if I tried to sell it on it's merits... well, then... uh... I'd be broke.
Dear Hollywood,This is spot-on. We've had a media culture for a very, very long time where the hits (Dark Knight) subsidize the losses (The Love Guru). As the safety net disintegrates for the losers (and there's a LOT of bad, awful, terrible movies); of course there's going to be a lot of rancor and squealing.
We aren't making money from downloading, we are sharing copies of stuff we have gotten through renting or borrowing from friends.
You wont make any more money by shutting down the Internet.
The only reason you don't make as much as you would like is due to the quality of most of your product. The Dark Knight made money, it was good. The Love Guru didn't as it sucked big time.
Start believing in vision and stop believing in focus groups.
Take a risk, make entertaining art or get the hell out.
Or just keep trying to remake the world the way you think it should be, ie the 1980's.
Welcome to the 21st Century, torrents will never die, and you cant put the genie back in the bottle.
Get over it, shut up and hang on, its gonna be a bumpy ride.
But however edgy some of the thinking may be at SXSWi, and however much its demographic may deviate from the U.S. population as a whole, the revenue crisis is real, and this is one of the places where it takes center stage. According to Avner Ronen, the sense of uncertainty over profits is what's holding back some of the innovation that SXSWi's masses are so eager to set in motion.Here's where things become... well, wonky. It's NOT A REVENUE CRISIS. It's a crisis of profit margins, and confidence in the product."That's what's scary for the media companies dealing with Boxee," he said. "They saw what happened with newspapers. It's unlike the record industry, it's not like they fought it. They endorsed it, they executed very well against it, it's just...the analog dollars to digital pennies thing."
Ok, maybe a bit extreme, but it makes a point, right? And someone might just buy it. That's like selling almost 11,000 albums in one fell swoop, but without the cost of ... um, 11,000 albums.$75,000 (limited edition of 1)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download
-T-shirt
-Go on tour with Josh for a few days.
-Have Josh write, record and release a 5 song EP about you and your life story.
-Take home any of his drumsets (only one but you can choose which one.)
-Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL's Lamborgini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while.
-Josh will join your band for a month...play shows, record, party with groupies, etc.... -If you don't have a band he'll be your personal assistant for a month (4 day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm)
-Take a limo down to Tijuana and he'll show you how it's done (what that means exactly we can't legally get into here)
-If you don't live in Southern California (but are a US resident) he'll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks.
-Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robin's place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna.
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It would be curious then, if an idea, the fugitive fermentation of an individual brain, could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property.We've come a long, long way from that standpoint. I'm not yet convinced that where we stand in the US on copyright law is the place that our founding fathers had envisioned us standing when they created copyright.
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it.
Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it.
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from anybody.
Accordingly, it is a fact, as far as I am informed, that England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the exclusive use of an idea.
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