文档介绍：Content and Control:
Assessing the Impact of Policy Choices on
Potential Online Business Models in the Music
and Film Industries
Research Team
This paper is a case study developed by the Digital Media Project team at the Berkman Center for
and Society at Harvard Law School. Gartner|G2 served as our research partner in this venture. Particular
thanks to Mike McGuire of Gartner|G2.
The authors owe thanks to William W. Fisher, Charles Nesson, and John Palfrey ments. Thanks also
to Ravi Agrawal, Erica e, Matt Krueger, Jack Lerner, and, as always, Mary Bridges for their support.
Feedback would be appreciated at .
Digital Media Project Principal Investigator
William W. Fisher, III
Hale and Dorr Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Harvard Law School
Authors
Derek Slater, Meg Smith, Derek Bambauer, Urs Gasser, John Palfrey
Researchers & Contributors
Andrew Bragin, Joseph Jackson, Edward Locke, Stephen Mohr, C. Lee Wilson
Digital Media Project Director
Meg Smith
Communications Director
Mary Bridges
Release Date: January 7, 2005
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Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................................................4
Organization and methodology................................................................................................................................... 5
The impact of digital technologies .............................................................................................................................. 5
The three policy nodes............................................................................................................................7
P2P and other distribution mechanisms .................................................................................................................... 7
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