[A2k] 3 questions on the short-term future of music exchange

[Philippe AIGRAIN]

Every year, Cannes MIDEM=E2=80=99s week used to bring the pain back. Abusiv=
e
accusations against piracy and few ideas on the future of music. That=E2=80=
=99s the
past. At last we are there: the music industry lives in the information era=
.
DRM are dead for music (it will take a few years more for moving image).
Global licensing for non-commercial P2P exchanges for a flat rate is no
longer taboo for music industry consultants and the European Commission. It
is now acknowledged that legalised non commercial P2P exchanges will genera=
te
much more cultural diversity. Thanks and congrats. Of course it was a long
road, and we are not at the end, since we only heard words and they were
still shy. We still live with the absurd technological and legal by-product=
s
of the former lies, first and foremost DRM and the criminalisation of their
circumvention. But still, thanks and congrats to those who like music enoug=
h
and travelled that far. Now, we face 3 questions that need to be debated
immediately. I propose below some arguments in favour of the answer I suppo=
rt
for each.

Read more at:
http://paigrain.debatpublic.net/?lp_lang_pref=3Den
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Philippe Aigrain