Free ride [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] how digital parasites are destroying the culture business, and how the culture business can fight back / Robert Levine.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-294) and index.
Contents
Introduction: The online free-for-all -- How Congress created YouTube -- and media's big problem -- Facing the music : how the Internet devastated the music business -- Geeks bearing gifts : Google's war on copyright -- The siren song of "free" : why newspapers struggled online -- The revolution may not be televised : how the Internet could kill Mad Men -- Books or Kindle-ing? : How technology could turn the page on publishing -- Moving pictures : can Hollywood conquer the cloud? -- Disquiet on the European front : why France favors art over the Internet -- Blanket protection : turning copyright into copyrisk -- The future of the future : commerce or chaos?
Summary
A report on how the Internet is significantly compromising the newspaper, music, and film industries offers advice to media industry insiders on how to use innovative solutions to reclaim profits.