Understanding IP Matters

The High Cost of ‘Free’ Content

January 24, 2022 The Center For Intellectual Property Understanding Season 1 Episode 3
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Film producer, Wall Street dealmaker and ex-Bob Dylan tour manager Jonathan Taplin says we need to treat content and content creators better or pay the cost.

Exchanging analog dollars for digital dimes
90% of the revenue from 1% of the artists
Problems with copyright in the Internet Age
Seminal video-on-demand patents
DOJ sued Penquin Random House as a ‘Monopsony’
Use of Google’s content ID algorithm
Blackstone just put $1 billion into a copyright buy-out fund
Songwriters continued to get paid in the 1990s and beyond – not musicians
An important part of sustaining creativity
Taylor Swift stuck-up for all artists
Why should IP be ‘free’ because it can be easily be delivered over a digital pipe?