Scenarios and Strategy

Back in May of 2010, the popular file-sharing service Limewire was found guilty of copyright infringement in a federal court; Limewire closed last October.  Still, the plaintiff, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), is seeking damages– $75 Trillion in damages. Perhaps noting that $7

Last December, Secretary of State Clinton delivered a rousing speech to a Conference on Internet Freedom held at the Hague in which she hammered what has become a steady theme for her over the last couple of years: The United States wants the internet to remain a space where economic, political, and

A guest post from (Roughly) Daily… Our copyright laws are stealing from the mouths of Charles Dickens’ great-great-great-great grandchildren Neuroscientist and game designer Adrian Hon has a radical answer to the continuing problem of intellectual property; as he writes in The Telegraph, …Imagine yo

A guest post from (Roughly) Daily… From the Kauffman Foundation’s “Sketchbook” series, “Make it Happen,“ a wonderful animation of a recent interview with Tim O’Reilly on the “Maker Movement” (see here and here)– and on what it can teach us about innovation and entrepreneurial energy:  click image ab

The New York Times reports this morning on the latest U.S. GDP figures: Growth Accelerates, but U.S. Has Lots of Ground to Make Up  The American economy picked up a little steam last quarter, growing at its fastest pace in a year and a half. Whether it can sustain that momentum is critical to millio

source It’s become conventional to blame fast food for the epidemic of obesity afflicting the poorest Americans.  But, as GOOD reports, a UC Davis study of thousands of adults found that McDonalds, Burger King, et al. are shoveling the fat higher up the income chain… The relationship between fast-fo

Sony’s Howard Stringer Says He’s Ready To Compete Against Steve Jobs November 11, 2011 Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer told The Wall Street Journal Thursday that he’s finally ready to compete against Steve Jobs. “I spent the last five years building a platform so I can compete against Steve Job

A guest post from (Roughly) Daily… source The Economist‘s Free Exchange blog report’s on the Kauffman Foundation‘s most recent quarterly survey: THE KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION conducts a quarterly survey of economics bloggers (you can see the third quarter results here). It tends to focus on current econom