Comments on: Creative Destruction and Copyright

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By: Going Solo

Going Solo — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:55:45 +0000

[...] to longtime TLF readers. I did a post today on the decline of newspapers, a topic I’ve weighed in before. But I’ll also be covering some new ground. This post, for example, examines the why [...]

By: Sajid Mehmood » DRM and Thinking the Unthinkable

Sajid Mehmood » DRM and Thinking the Unthinkable — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:51:56 +0000

[...] few weeks ago, Tim made an excellent observation at TLF that connects the issues the newspaper industry is having with the problems other content [...]

By: P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Yochai Benkler on the new news infrastructure

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:35:07 +0000

[...] Source from first quote above is here [...]

By: Ezra

Ezra — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:15:26 +0000

Newspapers' struggle with “intellectual property” is not a new issue because of the Internet. In the telegraph era, the AP accused the Hearst Service of “piracy” for paraphrasing its wire stories. See INS v. AP (1918).

By: Ezra

Ezra — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:15:26 +0000

By: Boycott Novell » Links 16/03/2009: Cloudera Debuts, OpenOffice.org 3.0.x Approaches 50 Million Downloads

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:11:04 +0000

[...] Creative Destruction and Copyright the newspaper industry is in the same death spiral as the recording industry, without the lawbreaking that’s commonly blamed for the recording industry’s troubles. And it seems to me that this poses a philosophical challenge to DeLong’s theory that the problem is a lack of respect for “property rights.” The decline of the newspapers is clearly a story of technological progress producing increased competition and entrepreneurship—precisely the sort of thing libertarians normally celebrate. The news business has gotten far more competitive over the last decade, and we’re now seeing a normal shake-out where the least efficient firms go out of business. [...]

By: Jim Lippard

Jim Lippard — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:59:09 +0000

The Economist just pointed out recently that while newspapers in the U.S. are failing and laying off reporters, wire services are seeing a boom in business. Wire services are, if anything, more dependent upon copyrights to protect their content than newspapers, but they don't seem to be having a problem.

http://www.economist.com/business/displaystory....

Newspapers are also doing well in developing nations where the middle class is coming into existence and growing.

By: David Crisp

David Crisp — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:18:44 +0000

Your list of non-newspaper news sources fails to acknowledge how dependent most of those, especially broadcast, themselves rely on newspapers for original reporting

By: Gretchen Bleiler

Gretchen Bleiler — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:27:43 +0000

Thanks for your sharing your insights.. I do have to agree with what you have said.

By: C.

C. — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:06:14 +0000

"In short, the newspaper industry is in the same death spiral as the recording industry, without the lawbreaking that’s commonly blamed for the recording industry’s troubles. "

You are correct in that the problems the recording industry and newspapers are facing are different in respect of the legal status of the behavior. They are similar in that they are both now competing with free. Having to inscribe desired information on a tangible object imposes limit and creates value. The internet, by making it possible to obtain infinite amounts of desired information for free, is destroying the ability to impose limits on that information and thereby to profit from it. There will still be journalists, there will just be a lot fewer of them. They will be less powerful, and therefore more bootlickish and obsequious. The demands upon their productivity will be greater, and therefor quality will decline and endeavors which are not immeditately productive, eg investigative reporting, will be greatly curtailed. We have been witnessing the decline for the past five or so years.

By: Those Who Don’t Understand The Value Of Free Information Are Doomed To Fail by Wacky Geeks

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:41:43 +0000

[...] between the two industries — a point highlighted by Tim Lee, who (at the same time) notes that the one difference is that “piracy” isn’t a problem for the news busine… (though, those who incorrectly blame Google for the downfall of journalism might argue otherwise). [...]

By: From the Ashes of Newspapers . . . | The Technology Liberation Front

From the Ashes of Newspapers . . . | The Technology Liberation Front — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:15:45 +0000

[...] not mourn the passing of business models. Tim Lee extolled the virtues of creative destruction here, in response to a Jim DeLong piece in The American preparing the obituary for the news business and [...]

By: Tim Lee

Tim Lee — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:32:45 +0000

Fair enough, although I think that most of what I said about the utilitarian camp also applies to the abolitionists. The abolitionists do "regard copyright as a limited government monopoly," although they disagree with the utilitarian camp about whether that monopoly is beneficial. And they certainly "tend not to think that copyright deserves the same level of strong enforcement we give to tangible property rights" and are unconcerned (even more than the utilitarians) about file sharing.

By: Jardinero1

Jardinero1 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:51:26 +0000

I disagree with your assertion that there are only two libertarian views of copyright; an absolutist e view and a utilitarian view.

There are still other alternative viewpoints. Some libertarians argue that copyright is a legal fiction designed to create property, scarcity and transaction costs where in reality there are none of those things. Solution: dispense with the legal fiction. For elaboration on this radical perspective, do read Stephan Kinsella's monograph; "Against Intellectual Property". Link below.

http://mises.org/books/against.pdf

In it, he also deals with and rebuts the various utilitarian arguments for copyright. It will change the way you view copyright forever.

By: MikeRT

MikeRT — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:47:27 +0000

The newspaper's problem is fundamentally one of obscolescence, not intellectual property. Newspapers just don't provide much content worth buying, and they have done a remarkably good job of pissing off a major portion of their customers with their biased reporting. To round out their problems, it really doesn't help things that they also don't even do the investigative reporting which used to justify their existence and public support on the grounds that they are a watchdog.