Report Examines Digital Business Models and Copyright Implications

From Harvard’s Digital Media Project, a new report, Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on Potential Online Business Models in the Music and Film Industries (83 pages, PDF):

  • “To prevent unauthorized copying of their works, copyright holders have traditionally relied on practical barriers as well as their legal exclusive rights to control reproduction and distribution. The new technologies vitiating those practical barriers – peer-to-peer (P2P) services, digital compression technologies, and others – are demonstrating just how empty those legal rights may be and how poorly matched they may be with cultural norms and practice. Consumers are exploiting the exciting potential for greater interactivity and involvement with content, but also the opportunity to acquire content illicitly, and are thus finding themselves in conflict with many of those who make content possible.”
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