Doc Searls: Edging toward the fully licensed world...?

"...turning the mobile Web into something more like TV.

Meanwhile, back on the book and music front, publishers already have the Amazon and Apple content sphincters in place, on the iPads, iPhones and Kindles that are gradually marginalizing our dull old all-purpose desktop and laptop computers.What used to be radio is gradually turning into a rights-clearing mess. You like Spotify? Read Michael Robertson on how hard it is for Spotify and other radio-like music services to make money, or for the artists to make much either.

You like to hear music on the radio, either over the air or over streams? Read David Oxenford’s report on how complicated that’s getting. Stopping SOPA was indeed an achievement by advocates of a free and open Internet.  But that was like stopping one goal in a football game after the other side already built up a 100-to-0 lead...."

via blogs.law.harvard.edu

Some very good thoughts here. If this continues, will there be anything left that is a actually COMMON good, based on a PUBLIC License... something that is not behind some wall?

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Comments

[MaryAng68065215]

no matter how much technologies develop, i think newspapers and any other paper editions, books still should exist. reading a paper it more convenient and pleasant, it is better for your eyes and health. South Korea is planning on using only portable devices for school by 2015. Which means no books. But how about old newspapers issues, they are still going to need them, as long as other paper editions.
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