“As robots become more autonomous, the notion of computer-controlled machines facing ethical decisions is moving out of the realm of science fiction and into the real world.” “Morals and the Machine,” The Economist I was invited to a small dinner recently with representatives of Google and Google-backed advocacy and lobbying groups. This was probably a […]
Remember–if you’re not registered, you can’t vote. If you are registered, make sure you know your polling place as well as your early voting or absentee ballot deadlines if you’re going to be on the road on election day. Georgia’s voter registration deadline is July 2 for the July 31 primary elections. Tennessee’s voter registration deadline […]
An excellent presentation by Robert Levine (author of the important book, Free Ride) on the failure of the promise of the Internet and what is to be done. Robert spoke at this year’s Global Forum hosted by Music Canada during Canadian Music Week. See also: The Wrong Flow: Rightsflow wants you to fix their data
Yes, when sleeping with the enemy is not enough, it’s time for fear and astroturfing in the UK. The resilient Andrew Orlowski writes in The Register (“Google Orders Spontaneous Support for Parliamentary Motion“) that a former staffer for UK Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and–wait for it–current Google employee sent an email “call to action” […]
Remember the righteous indignation of parents over the use of the deceptive cartoon figure “Joe Camel” in the Camel cigarettes advertising campaign to sell cigarettes largely targeted at kids? The deceptive ad campaign that used a cuddly cartoon figure that was strangely infantile yet a cross between Hugh Hefner and James Bond in terms of setting […]
MTP readers will remember the dynamic head of Security for Google Apps, Eran Raven a/k/a Eran Feigenbaum: In October and November 2007, Raven was one of ten mentalist contestants on the primetime NBC series Phenomenon, which was hosted by Tim Vincent and judged by Criss Angel and Uri Geller. Isn’t that just too awesome? Criss […]
Professor Brett Danaher, the Wellesley economist, gave an excellent presentation on France’s HADOPI graduated response program at the Global Forum that I was honored to moderate in Toronto during Canadian Music Week. Professor Danaher’s independent econometric study shows that HADOPI has been quite effective in educating the French public, slowing piracy and increasing sales. While there are […]
In case you needed some proof, here is an excert from a “New Boss” contract, being Google’s indie publisher license for YouTube (Google’s heavily subsidized and dominant entry into the video and video advertising verticle). To my knowledge, there has never been a comparable provision in an “Old Boss” music publishing license or recording agreement. Clauses […]
I happened to attend a panel recently about monetizing content on YouTube. There were two panelists from YouTube and one from a digital distributor. The distributor rep did a great job of describing how a large digital distributor dealt with montetizing video content on YouTube. Given that the back of the envelope ratio I’ve developed from […]
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