Every year, I see articles about how Hollywood is out of ideas, and how we are about to be subjected to a series of sequels and remakes. However, I often find myself pleasantly surprised by sequels and remakes.
I just updated the blog from my phone. Test is successful. Technology makes everything better. Well, maybe not everything. If you’re a Hollywood screenwriter, you have a front row seat as technology sends the film making industry to the same resting place where it has already sent the music industry. The business …
Part of the art of filmmaking is film funding. You may have the greatest idea for a movie ever, but no one will pay you to make it unless you can convince them you are worth the investment. What makes it more difficult is that the creative mind and the business mind seem to speak in completely different languages.
On this Planet Money podcast, the lead singer of OK Go about the music industry, or, rather, how the internet has changed the music industry over the past couple of decades.
Essentially, he says that we are living in interesting times.
One of the whole idea about Creative Commons or other alternatives to traditional copyright is that people assume they don’t make money.
Because they don’t.