Julianna Yau’s blog

Next Thursday, The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford is presenting “Innovation Goes Public”, a talk by Bruce Perens on business models for open source software.

Sadly, jetting off to Stanford for a day to attend the presentation isn’t within my time or fiscal budget. I suspect that much of the presentation will focus on shifting from the sale of software to the sale of technical support. But, despite this, I also suspect the very basic concepts behind the shift in business models may be of use to other creators (visual artists, musicians/songwriters, writers, movie-makers, etc).

What is persistently annoying for me is my inability to see how visual artists can rethink their business models in this new environment where distribution is dramatically easier than before. Are we to rethink what influences the value of a work of art? What does influence the value of a work of art? Will multiple copies of a work still decrease its value in the current environment? Does that apply to all media?

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