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Short notes about music business #6

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Lawrence Lessig about the copyright war.

“I believe we should not be waging this war. I believe so not because I think copyright is unimportant. Instead, I believe in peace because the costs of this war wildly exceed any benefit, at least when you consider changes to the current regime of copyright that could end this war while promising artists and authors the protection that any copyright system is intended to provide.”

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Quote of the day. Or the year.

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“There’s a set of data that shows that file sharing is actually good for artists. Not bad for artists. So maybe we shouldn’t be stopping it all the time.”

–Douglas Merrill, EMI’s newly appointed president of digital business