New Media Business Models

The Dallas Buyer’s Club: How to monetize a BitTorrent release window

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Dallas Buyer’s Club have launched an innovative new digital business model in Australia that promises to turn around decreasing income for movies caused by declining cinema audiences and low VOD licensing fees. Rather than release their Oscar winning movie at the same time as in the United States the studio decided to wait a few [...]

Is there a copyright future?

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In late May I attended a great conference on Copyright Future - Copyright Freedom held at Old Parliament House in Canberra which featured a keynote talk by Stanford University Professor Lawrence who is pictured above. One session of the conference was run in the old House of Representatives chamber and many of the speakers were [...]

G’zillions ‘a glitz

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I've been flicking through the MIPTV news after our very own home grown Scorched.tv picked up a Digital Emmy® award yesterday. MIPTV is a glitzy event and the Scorched.tv team certainly had their moment in the sun but I couldn't help notice the glare of ZillionTV splashed across blog posts and twitter feeds and of [...]

The End of Big Media?

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Raph Koster is the author of the book 'A Theory of Fun' and presents some groundbreaking ideas in a GDC Podcast titled 'Where Game Meets the Web'. Raph's blog can be found here. The linear media industries have been hearing about all the implications of Web 2.0 for the past two years and it's taking [...]

Duck for cover: “You Tube meets The Apprentice”

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Was just looking at popular vlogs on You Tube and came across Charles Trippy. He's kind of a bad ZeFrank immitation only younger, better looking and much less acidic. Anyway, Charles has just been selected as a contestant on 'The Next Internet Millionaire' which is a reality TV concept on the web. Might be worth [...]