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As Techdirt has been pointing out for years , newspaper paywalls make no sense. By stopping people from reading your stories unless t...

One of the slogans of the copyright industries is that you can't make money from giving things away. Unfortunately for them, example...

Earlier this week I wrote about the first company based on open source to reach a turnover of one billion dollars. But of course, there...

One of the positive outcomes of the debate that has raged around SOPA/PIPA is that more people have looked at the facts, rather than list...

A recurrent refrain from the copyright industries is that you can't make money from digital goods if they are freely available online....

Neelie Kroes is that rare thing: a politician who actually seems to understand digital technologies. Before she became the European Comm...

Increasingly, publishers are joining the music and film industries in bemoaning the effects of piracy on the sales of digital products – a...

Somehow you rather expect the head of the WIPO to come out with a statement on the potential benefits of patenting the World Wide Web. Bu...

I'm sure all my readers know about Techdirt : Started in 1997 by Floor64 founder Mike Masnick and then growing into a group blog...

Thanks to the good offices of @nzJayZee , I have just been sent to this musician's rather heartwarming Web site , wherein he says the f...

One of the things that I and others like to emphasise is that investigating new business models is crucial for the survival of art, artists ...

As a former publisher (no, really) I am fascinated by, and sympathetic to, efforts to come up with new models for profitable publishing in t...

Once more there is a lot of heated discussion about what constitutes a “real” open source business model – that is, one that remains true to...

Last week, I met up with Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat's CEO. He gave a very fluent presentation to a group of journalists that ran through Re...

The recent battle over the Digital Economy Bill has focussed renewed attention on the area of copying digital artefacts – music and films, f...

I am not an unthinking fan of everything Clay Shirky says, but I do find much of the stuff he writes thought provoking. In particular, I fo...

An analogy I and others frequently use in discussing the media industries' refusal to consider new business models is that of the transi...

They're getting there: Copyright holders on Wednesday acknowledged they have done a poor job of countering the “anti-copyright” lobby a...

Instead of suing people who upload your content on YouTube, you put up * better-quality * copies, and try to sell something off the back of ...

At first sight, the findings of The 451 Group’s latest CAOS report, “Open Source is Not a Business Model“ might seem to be terrible news for...