content and control - assessing the impact of policy choices on potential online business models in the music and film industries - [usa - harvard law school - 2005] - [pdf - en] - derek bambauer et al..pdf

Content and Control:
Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on
Potential Online Business Models in the Music
and Film Industries
Research Team



This paper is a case study developed by the Digital Media Project team at the Berkman Center for
and Society at Harvard Law School. Gartner|G2 served as our research partner in this venture. Particular
thanks to Mike McGuire of Gartner|G2.

The authors owe thanks to William W. Fisher, Charles Nesson, and John Palfrey ments. Thanks also
to Ravi Agrawal, Erica e, Matt Krueger, Jack Lerner, and, as always, Mary Bridges for their support.
Feedback would be appreciated at .


Digital Media Project Principal Investigator
William W. Fisher, III
Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Harvard Law School


Authors
Derek Slater, Meg Smith, Derek Bambauer, Urs Gasser, John Palfrey


Researchers & Contributors
Andrew Bragin, Joseph Jackson, Edward Locke, Stephen Mohr, C. Lee Wilson


Digital Media Project Director
Meg Smith


Communications Director
Mary Bridges


Release Date: January 7, 2005
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Contents



Introduction ............................................................................................................................................4
Organization and methodology................................................................................................................................... 5
The impact of digital technologies .............................................................................................................................. 5
The three policy nodes............................................................................................................................7
P2P and other distribution mechanisms .................................................................................................................... 7
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