Creative Business in the Digital Era

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= a research project examining the different ways in which artists and businesses are innovating around open intellectual property.

URL = http://www.openrightsgroup.org/creativebusiness/index.php/Main_Page

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"Increasingly, we are seeing publishers releasing books simultaneously under Creative Commons license and in print. Authors such as Cory Doctorow and Lawrence Lessig, who blazed this particular trail, are now being followed by many other people willing to experiment.

But it's not just authors and publishers who are innovating around open IP. Musicians are also seeing the value of getting their music in front of their fans immediately upon release. Record labels such as Magnatune been letting fans download music for free for a long time, but now it's spreading to the mainstream: Radiohead are giving away their album In Rainbows, and letting the fans decide how much to pay, if anything.

And software companies are also realising just how powerful it is for them to release data via an API, Google Maps being an excellent example of how giving away data enables third-party applications to be developed, with commercial operations licensing the data and non-commercial mash-ups using it for free." (http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/10/25/creative_business_in_the_digital_era.php)

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See also:

  1. Open Music Business Models
  2. Open Business Models