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Competition for Copyright Collectives: New Market Logics
“It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” (Karl Valentin and others) Not so long ago, the monopolistic concept of musician’s copyright collective like the German GEMA or the...
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Google vs. Copyright Collectives, or: Transnational vs. National Governance
Recent copyright conflicts around Google Book Search (see a NYT article) and Google’s video platform YouTube (see another NYT article) independently of one another received a lot of media attention but...
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Private Negotiation of Public Goods: Collateral Damage(s)
Content hosting services such as Google’s YouTube or Facebook are among the most important digital public spaces. Many entirely new forms of creativity have been inspired and flourish due to new and...
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Cracks in the Content Coalition: Corporations vs. Copyright Collectives
In April this year, broadcasters, collecting societies, and representatives of the music and film industry in Germany publicly announced the foundation of the “Deutsche Content Allianz” (“German...
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Anonymous Attacks German Collecting Society GEMA
A few days ago, the German collecting society GEMA was criticized by CEOs of leading music labels such as Universal or Sony Music for not being able to negotiate an agreement with Google, the owner of...
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