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  • The Public Interest in Music

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    The UK music industry is going through a period of internal arguments, and as sometimes happens some of us are reaching out for an adjudicator, or referee. January 2021 saw the UK’s law makers brought into the ring in a big way. With Members of Parliament it’s always hard to know whether they see themselves…

  • Music Clouds, Portability, and Graduated Response

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    Clouds look like bad news to me. Instead of the greater efficiency of shared resources it looks to me like they are all attempts to inflate switching costs and achieve higher profitability, at the expense of efficiency and consumer value. Remarkable though how Silicon Valley rehabilitates a metaphor of the formerly unwelcome, and endows it…