Category Archives: economics
It’s football time
It’s football time! and hokusai.fatbombers cannot abstains from talking about the worldcup, but from its own personal point of view. And the funniest thing I’ve found (thanks to Elena for the hint) is the funny championship-inside-the-championship that Managing Intellectual Property … Continue reading
When new distribution channels help the old ones…
Going on with the issue of new media distribution channels and strategies of a previous post, yesterday NBC presented the first quantitative data about the Apple partnership effects on NBC shows distributed via iTunes. The results are quite surprising, at … Continue reading
Italians do it better… or at least they do it for free!
Ok, don’t take me wrong, I speak about patent and trademark registration! This is an IP blog more or less, so sorry if you were thinking about a change in the editorial policy. Anyway, back to serious issues, let’s talk … Continue reading
Soderbergh vs Hollywood
With “Bubble” by Steven Soderbergh’s we’ll expertise a real revolution in the way movies are distributed. The movie, cost $1.7 million and produced with Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s dot-com dollars, will try to brake Hollywood’s (and Bolliwood’s as well) … Continue reading
What if God was a rightholder?
Yes, not one of us, like Joan Osbourne sings, but a rightholder. Two days ago the Vatican announced that the first encyclical signed by Pope Ratzinger is covered by copyright and royalties have to be paid for any commercial use … Continue reading