Tag Archives: Business

Jon Pareles has a nice remembrance of the Bottom Line, which closed its doors for the last time on Thursday: Modest to the end, the Bottom Line closed quietly on Thursday. There was no big farewell concert, no tearful leave-taking. The owners, Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky, didn’t wait for …

Even though record sales have dropped over the last few years, licensing royalties have continued to rise: Royalties paid to songwriters and music publishers from radio and television broadcasts of their songs, and from live performances, are at record highs. ….In 2003, America’s three recognized performing rights organizations – Sesac, …

Politics play a critical role in how medical patients are treated. Cultural norms and the politics that implement those norms determine even what is considered a treatable medical condition in the first place. Nowhere has the politics of medicine been more evident over the last century than in the treatment …

Understanding Napster is essential to a grasp of how we got where we are now with P2P, the hysterical flapping of the music industry, and the various possible entertainment-delivery futures. We ran an excerpt from Joseph Menn’s All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning’s Napster from the …

Nice overview of Napster history – did it really happen? – in LA Times excerpt from new book All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning’s Napster by Joseph Menn: It all began with a poor Boston-area kid who came west to Silicon Valley and started a revolution. …

Arnold Kling – who by the way, looks exactly like an “Arnold Kling” – says many of us misunderstand the economics of the Internet: all interpersonal transactions can be sorted into four relational models. Communal Sharing Authority Ranking Equality Matching Market Pricing In a Communal Sharing transaction, such as a …