[LINK] John Perry Barlow of Grateful Dead at e-G8

[Tom Koltai]

Excellent find Kim !

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> ry-barlow-tells-copyright-maximalists-that-theyve-got-fundamen
> tals-wrong.shtml
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> > When Barlow had a chance to speak, he expressed his own surprise at 
> > being on the panel, "because I don't think I'm from the 
> same planet, 
> > actually." He then proceeded to trash the foundational 
> assumptions of 
> > everyone who had just spoken.
> > 
> >> I may be one of very few people in this room who actually 
> makes his 
> >> living personally by creating what these gentlemen are 
> pleased to call "intellectual property." I don't regard my 
> expression as a form of property. Property is something that 
> can be taken from me. If I don't have it, somebody else does.
> >> 

I love it, this is the band that invented "giving away our music".
These are the guys that made more money in 1994 by giving away their
music than any other band did by selling albums, singles and/or CD's.
(approx. 90 million dollars).

Yet, counter to the Music Industries bleatings about the cost of
promoting artists... this is the same band that in 30 years only ever
managed one entry in the top ten charts... 
Fan tapings were encouraged and in fact are even today available on the
Prelinger archives.

And this was the band that the music industry picked as justifying their
model...

TomK - ROFLMAO!!!!

References:
How to "Truck" the Brand: Lessons from the Grateful Dead By Glenn Rifkin
http://www.strategy-business.com/press/16635507/9095
P2P Politics Part II
http://www.perceptric.com/blog/_archives/2009/7/23/4264184.html
Prelinger Archive -
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=grateful%20dead%20AND%20mediatyp
e%3Aaudio