Some articles to look at before the talk

The raw data is here. (Pages I've tagged as pertinent the topic)

I've put together packets of pages I've printed out which will be available at the Southwest Harbor library.

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O'Reilly Network: Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution Lesson 1: Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. Let me start with book publishing. More than 100,000 books are published each year, with several million books in print, yet fewer than 10,000 of those new books have

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Invasion Of The Brain Snatchers A review of HOT PROPERTY - The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization By Pat Choate

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WNYC - Reading Room: Hot Property -The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization Hamilton’s message to potential immigrants was loud and clear: bring your nation’s industrial secrets to America, gain citizenship, get a patent, be honored, and become wealthy.

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Dethroning King Gillette - Is iPod the Razor or the Blade? - By Robert X. Cringely To me, it seems that Apple has reversed the relationship of razors and blades, and eliminated the loss leader role entirely. Apple makes very little money from selling songs, but it does make some profit. Apple makes a LOT of profit from selling iPods. So

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Copyright Strikes Back | Linux Journal "So she publishes the document on her web site. After all, there's no other way, now that print media are no longer available. Within an hour, the document's gone--and so is her Web site. Why? The minute the company found out about the document's publicat

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The Huffington Post | The Blog - Hilary Rosen - Steve Jobs, Let my Music Go Shaun invents Napster. Hillary shuts it down. Steve comes up with a viable business model based on selling devices. Hillary complains.... (The title reference to a spiritual in the public domain is a nice touch)

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