By ditching DRM, sales increase and copyright holders make more money anyway:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/news/140652/uk-retailers-called-for-ditching- of-drm.html "independent labels are outselling restricted downloads by four-to-one." Better to have a larger slice of the cake than to have a small slice or no slice at all. Maybe copyright holders need to lower their income expectations. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Cowlishaw Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 11:35 AM To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Podcasts Including Music On 22 Nov 2007, at 10:52, Sean DALY wrote: > > * How about outright payment for perpetual rights? Way too expensive, > especially worldwide. Need this necessarily be the case though? considering that broadcast (and arts / media / entertainment sector in general) is one of the most over-subscribed professions in this country, and a great deal of talented people working in the broadcast industry are paid shockingly low wages by their (rights holder) employers, i'd be willing to bet that there are a great many talented programme-makers who would be willing to sell their content outright for a not-outrageous sum. Granted, Endemol or News Corp probably won't be among them, but does this have to be a problem? Cheers, Tim - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
