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What Makes IP Valuable?
Collectors: Why collect? What do you believe?
Modern, digital technology is a tool, created and wielded by humans, ostensibly under our control. Throughout history, the adoption of new technologies has driven profound shifts in society and this has been especially true when the technologies connect humans in new ways (shipping, telephony, trains,... See more
Modern, digital technology is a tool, created and wielded by humans, ostensibly under our control. Throughout history, the adoption of new technologies has driven profound shifts in society and this has been especially true when the technologies connect humans in new ways (shipping, telephony, trains,... See more
Ian Rogers • Why Collect Digital Art? What Do You Believe? (Gen Art) - Tetragrammaton
"Authorship"-in the sense we know it today, individual intellectual effort related to the book as an economic commodity-was practically unknown before the advent of print technology. Medieval scholars were indifferent to the precise identity of the "books" they studied. In turn, they rarely signed even what was clearly their own. They were a humble
... See moreHere's why IP is well positioned in an AI future:
If we have AGI, or even inexpensive content creation, that will drive down the cost of intelligence.That affordable intelligence will be used to create an abundance of content.Humans will react to abundance with a desire for familiarity and quality.The value of the “original” will only increase.In... See more
If we have AGI, or even inexpensive content creation, that will drive down the cost of intelligence.That affordable intelligence will be used to create an abundance of content.Humans will react to abundance with a desire for familiarity and quality.The value of the “original” will only increase.In... See more
The Abundance Paradox: Why Netflix’s $82B Acquisition Makes Sense in the Era of AI
8. Intellectual property will become less defensible in the short term but it is still cultural gold. From “my kid could do that” to “right click and save,” new media from the early 20th century onward has been poorly received. As W. David Marx writes of NFTs in Dirt, “whether or not this particular NFT bubble bursts, we should take them seriously... See more
Kyle Chayka • 10 Lessons for Crypto Media: Dirt’s Year in Review
And so what you've ended up with, not surprisingly, is a few key players that happen to own the majority of the IP that is kind of a must have in this industry to have a product offering and a handful of distributors that have gotten scale on distribution of great user experiences like a Spotify, Amazon, a YouTube, whoever you might want to think... See more