revenue streams

Well this is interesting. Switzerland, which has been a party to the ACTA negotiations, but last we checked had not signed on yet, has put out a report from its executive branch, basically completely downplaying the issue of file sharing.

On Monday, Canonical announced the launch of its new Ubuntu Advantage (UA) partner program. Enterprise customers will benefit from the new partner program by having local resources and expertise to call on.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Case in point: Vendors can take a hefty cut of the profits from applications sold through their app stores or shipped by default.

But should they? Continue reading →

The Future of Music Coalition, who has put together a big list of revenue streams for musicians, as a tool for getting them to think about alternative business model opportunities, is now trying to take that idea even further.

So it's now launching the "Artist Revenue Streams Project" to dig into how artists are actually making money today, and how that's been changing over time.

An extensive study into the effect of digitalization on the music industry in Norway has shed an interesting light on the position of artists today, compared to 1999.

While the music industry often talks about artists being on the brink of bankruptcy due to illicit file-sharing, the study found that the number of artists as well as their average income has seen a major increase in the last decade.

Every other month a new study addressing the link between music piracy and music revenues surfaces, but only a few really stand out.

I'm not sure how well this will work, but it does seem like an interesting experiment for publications to expand their revenue streams.

Magazine publishing giant Conde Nast is setting up an entirely new division to focus on licensing its magazine names for restaurants.

There's the GQ Bar & Grill and the Vogue Cafe, for example. The focus right now is not on the US market, so these won't be appearing here, but in places like Hong Kong, Dubai and Moscow.

We've been making this sort of argument for many, many years, but it's nice to see that it's catching on in a variety of places, including the more mainstream media.

Over in the UK, there's a column in the Telegraph advocating that record labels stop trying technological and legal efforts to fight unauthorized file trading online, and instead give away all their music as free MP3s, and focus on alternative revenue streams.

Eric Goldman points us to the news of a lawsuit concerning the International Swaps and Derivatives Association Inc (ISDA), an industry trade group focused on the financial derivatives market.

ISDA supposedly created a set of forms that can be used by parties in a derivatives transaction -- which it then registered a copyright on.

Some companies used those forms as part of their filings with the SEC in EDGAR, which is all publicly available information.