A presentation I gave (as a video) as part of the Digital Music Roundtable in Norway.  The topic was whether a Network License (licensing ISP networks for music, in general) was “worth doing?” The Big Question: Is a Network (blanket license) Worth Doing? from david touve on Vimeo.

On Sunday, YouTube celebrated its fifth birthday.  Congratulations! On this birthday, the video site announced approximately 2,000,00,000 views each day. In the wake of this announcement, Eliot VanBuskirk over at Wired.com suggested YouTube viewing now tops network prime time viewing—at least in the US. Recently at the Telco 2.0 conference, I tried to put YouTube [...]

I wrote up a brief three pager offering a possible structure for music licensing online.  The idea was simply to simplify the challenge of licensing so many sorts of music users, even file sharing. Click here to download: Structuring the Resolution. The text version: From a platform mindset, our approach to not only licensing but also [...]

Given the ongoing and at time spicy debate that surrounds the Long Tail, as presented by WIRED’s Chris Anderson, I believe its time we ask a very simple question:  Is “The Long Tail” a Theory or an Ideology?  If this question has already been asked, then consider this simply the time for me to ask [...]