The High Cost of ‘Free’ Content

Film producer, Wall Street dealmaker and ex-Bob Dylan tour manager Jonathan Taplin says we need to treat content and content creators better or pay the cost.

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Chapters

• 2:15 Exchanging analog dollars for digital dimes
• 3:00 90% of the revenue from 1% of the artists
• 6:38 Problems with copyright in the Internet Age
• 11:10 Seminal video-on-demand patents
• 12:20 DOJ sued Penquin Random House as a ‘Monopsony’
• 13:45 Use of Google’s content ID algorithm
• 17:20 Blackstone just put $1 billion into a copyright buy-out fund
• 18:45 Songwriters continued to get paid in the 1990s and beyond – not musicians
• 21:50 An important part of sustaining creativity
• 22:35 Taylor Swift stuck-up for all artists
• 23:55 Why should IP be ‘free’ because it can be easily be delivered over a digital pipe?