In the fully networked digital world, where distribution to everyone on earth is finally operational, there will be no copyrights whatsoever. All intellectual property will only be in its creater's control until it is released the very first time onto the distribution grid. Once it has been realased, it will be in the public domain with no more control of that product by its makers. Everyone in the world will be entitled to copy or sell copies (if they can) or redistribute it over the entire network again and again as if it were their own.
It is incumbant upon the financiers and producers of new programs of any kind to add enough value to that first distribution that the viewers will be willing to pay something for it (either in the form of pay-per-view or weekly, monthly, or annual subscription). If they cannot create in their offerings something significant which is only meaningful to the first distribution, then the entire value of the production will be lost as people wait (TIVO model) the few minutes needed to gain access to a public domain version being served on the Network. So, all movies will have to incorprate this special "live" feature so as to make the first showing sufficiently more compelling than any subsequent public domain showing from an internet server.
Digital distribution in 50 years will, of course, be total to all populations of the world (wired and wireless). If that special compelling attraction can be found it may draw a sufficient number of paying customers from the 10 billion people living at that time to not only pay for the production, but profit handsomely as well.
We all know that there is no copy protection scheme or model in the digital domain that is going to succeed beyond a brief moment in time. All attempts will be compromised in such short order that protection shemes will be totally abandoned as a waste of resources. All software must be subject to this very same condition with its protection holding only up to the moment of its first release on a network. Then it is public domain.
Distribution science must, therefore, replace the industrial age's view that patents and copyrights and haves and have nots are the backbone of a modern economic age. That era is completely over by our communal choice and the quicker we learn that, the better off we are going to be. We need to concentrate on the sciences of mass distribution using a unique viewing appeal as the differentiator which draws revenue to the project on its frist release. We don't care for any other model that restricts our access to any and all creative goods regardless of who made them. Or, are we just singling out some creaters we don't just like for this fate?
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In the fully networked digital world, where distribution to everyone on earth is finally operational, there will be no copyrights whatsoever. All intellectual property will only be in its creater's control until it is released the very first time onto the distribution grid. Once it has been realased, it will be in the public domain with no more control of that product by its makers. Everyone in the world will be entitled to copy or sell copies (if they can) or redistribute it over the entire network again and again as if it were their own. It is incumbant upon the financiers and producers of new programs of any kind to add enough value to that first distribution that the viewers will be willing to pay something for it (either in the form of pay-per-view or weekly, monthly, or annual subscription). If they cannot create in their offerings something significant which is only meaningful to the first distribution, then the entire value of the production will be lost as people wait (TIVO model) the few minutes needed to gain access to a public domain version being served on the Network. So, all movies will have to incorprate this special "live" feature so as to make the first showing sufficiently more compelling than any subsequent public domain showing from an internet server. Digital distribution in 50 years will, of course, be total to all populations of the world (wired and wireless). If that special compelling attraction can be found it may draw a sufficient number of paying customers from the 10 billion people living at that time to not only pay for the production, but profit handsomely as well. We all know that there is no copy protection scheme or model in the digital domain that is going to succeed beyond a brief moment in time. All attempts will be compromised in such short order that protection shemes will be totally abandoned as a waste of resources. All software must be subject to this very same condition with its protection holding only up to the moment of its first release on a network. Then it is public domain. Distribution science must, therefore, replace the industrial age's view that patents and copyrights and haves and have nots are the backbone of a modern economic age. That era is completely over by our communal choice and the quicker we learn that, the better off we are going to be. We need to concentrate on the sciences of mass distribution using a unique viewing appeal as the differentiator which draws revenue to the project on its frist release. We don't care for any other model that restricts our access to any and all creative goods regardless of who made them. Or, are we just singling out some creaters we don't just like for this fate?