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Cory Doctorow Says DIY Licensing Will Solve Piracy
An anonymous reader writes "The founding editor of Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow, has written a report about 'do-it-yourself' digital licensing, which he's touting as the panacea for piracy. Doctorow's solution for content creators is two-fold: get a Creative Commons license and append some basic text requiring those who re-use your work to pay you a percentage of their gross income. Doctorow refers to this as the middle ground between simply acquiring a Creative Commons license and hiring expensive lawyers for negotiations. He calls do-it-yourself licensing 'cheap and easy licensing that would turn yesterday's pirates into tomorrow's partners.'"
We could make this work -- we'll start an association of content owners, whose purpose will be to enforce the license. They'll pay or we'll sue! Yeah, that's the ticket...
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Yes but that's easy to do when you live in a blimp, blogging away high at the top of the piratsphere.
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I don't think your analysis is complete.
Using your figures, we assume a 600% inflation rate since 1962 ("... yet cost 1/16th as much adjusted for inflation", applied to $100 million current dollars, yields a little over $6 million dollars or 6 times the unadjusted cost for "Dr. No"). That may seem a little high, but I just put the numbers in an inflation calculator (The Inflation Calculator) and it's close: 679% inflation between 1962 and 2007. So, let's assume that figure.
At 679% inflation, "Dr. No" would have earned $407 million current dollars at an expense of $7 million, or a total profit of $400 million current dollars. On the other hand, "Casino Royale" earned $600 million at an expense of $100 million, or a total profit of $500 million.
So, "Casino Royale" made 25% more profit than "Dr. No", when adjusted for inflation. It's not a huge jump, but it debunks your assertion that the new movie actually made much less by comparison. The new movie made less "percentage-wise" when comparing income to investment, but more actual dollars.
If you can gain 25% profit by investing 16 times more money, and you have the money to invest, you would be wise to do so.
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Neither artists nor listeners need major labels. Or, in fact, labels.
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But if an album doesn't have a label, how do you know what songs are on it?
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Doctorow is somekind of Paris Hilton for the geeks.
He had his 15 minutes of fame. And now you continue to see him babling around like if he was to be listened like a wyse oracle of some kind.
He should do like the real one, stick to infrared war-in-the-gulf style porn tapes, product launch for crappy perfumes or the new equally crappy Audi of the week.
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