Gerd Leonhard Media Futurist
gerd@mediafuturist.com
www.mediafuturist.com
www.music20thebook.com
Music 2.0 -
a new, web-native music business
Presentation at Picnic 2008
September 25, 2008 Amsterdam

Gerd Leonhard Media Futurist

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Music is now (again) a
Social Medium
Source: UniversalMcCann waves report

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Music 2.0: a networked, web-native,
de-centralized Music Business.

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This is ... Not.

Goodbye ‘Copy = Money”
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The The Western Definition of Copyright as Sole Value of Music is dead

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http://flickr.com/photos/hollyleigh97/

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The future source of income is
Getting Attention

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This is not a battle for getting people’s
money but a battle for their Attention

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For Creators,
Obscurity is a much
greater threat than
so-called Piracy
Source: CEA

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A web-native music business model...?
Based on flat-rate access first, then Copy
Based on Usage Rights, not (just) Copyright
Based many revenue streams selling-copies
Driven by Sharing, User-to-User
Driven by Syndication (Widgets!)
Decentralized
Powered by next-generation Advertising
Multi-platform access but mostly mobile!

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The result of this exploding
Broadband Culture:

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Does strong copyright and strong protection really
equal strong income?

Stop this?
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You can’t really ‘own’ the copy any more but
You can own the Context, the
Meaning, the Relevance, the
Experience, the Embodiment,
the Timing...

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Asking the ISPs to deep-
package inspect their traffic
and then enforce the rules of
an industry that has utterly
failed to adapt their business
model, is asking for
Censorship

Let’s face it: this is wrong
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Wanting to disconnect people because they
download music & other ‘content’ is wrong.
Criminalizing 90% of the population because of
a lack of a new model to serve them is wrong.
Exploiting market weaknesses to withhold music
licenses is wrong, and so is ruthlessly
capitalizing on one’s market position
Using copyright as an excuse to extort the users
and the organizations that serve them is wrong

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Instead of Control, Trust is the key to success in a Networked World
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/21/netmusic

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This is a very serious change
Copy Economy
Access /
Usage /
Share
Economy

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If you insert Friction
you insert Defeat

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Goodbye ‘Consumers’ as we knew them

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Welcome: The digital Music Flat Rate

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Old ‘paying logic’
http://www.repmanblog.com/photos/uncategorized/48750_a.jpg

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New paying logic

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Used to be
Music

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...is & will be
Music

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Our Future as Creatives: Attention-based Income explodes
while Copy-based income declines *for now
Copy Based Revenues
Attention Based Revenues
10.0
7.5
5.0
2.5
Was 0
Is
Soon
Near Future
Mid-term Future

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And a flat rate is just the beginning!

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And once 4 Billion phones are connected

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So why isn’t Google licensed for music yet?

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Let’s start sharing in the new revenues!
Start giving PERMISSION

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Now,
we must ‘sell’ things
that can’t
be
copied

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The industry has to offer a real, feasible license
to the networks, and enable a Flat Rate that
legalizes the ubiquitous use of music.
If there is no voluntary collective we may
need to enforce its creation.
If the ISPs are forced to unplug people maybe
we should unplug the industry, too?

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Yes, there are many issues, but:
The evils of ‘too open’ or ‘too much
freedom’ will always pale compared
to the evils of closed, central,
controlled and authoritarian system

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Let me tell you a story about
China, Google and Music

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Google Music in China
SHANGHAI, CHINA, August 2008:
Google has launched a free music search service in China that will give users access
to free downloads of songs, while capturing advertising revenue for music providers
in a market already infamous with piracy.
The service poses a challenge to Baidu.com, the #1 search engine in China, along
with other Chinese search engines, faced lawsuits charging that it facilitates copyright
violations through downloads of unlicensed music.
Google said its service would initially let Internet users search tens of thousands of
Chinese songs on its website and download them Top100.cn... Advertising revenue
from the service will be shared among Top100.cn and Google’s music partners aiding
in the search.
Source: Reuters / Information Week

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A Creative Economy based on
‘Mutual Interest’ ?
“The Internet industry should by no means stand in the
opposite camp against the music industry. Google
always believes profoundly that mutual interest,
rather than monopoly, is the key to sustainable
growth,” Google China president Kai-fu Lee said in a
statement

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A Recipe...?
Establish open, access & usage - based content licenses
Very large, engaged, always-on audiences
Low-cost, ubiquitous, mashed-access, mobile broadband
Telecoms that will become content & service pipes
Large Brands (and their agencies) that must reinvent their
marketing and advertising strategies
Premium Content as well as UGC unprotected, unlimited
Trusted opt-ins and flexible privacy provisions

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The Model
Find the many
Make it ‘feel like free’
Charge the few
Up-sell the rest!

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Kevin Kelly: The key is to offer valuable intangibles that can
not be reproduced at zero cost, and will thus be paid for:
1. Immediacy - priority access, immediate delivery
2. Personalization - tailored just for you
3. Interpretation - support and guidance
4. Authenticity - be sure it is the real thing?
5. Accessibility - whereever, whenever
6. Embodiment & Experience
7. Patronage - \"paying simply because it feels good\"
8. Findability & Curation

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\"When The winds of change are
blowing, some people are building
shelters, and others are building
windmills.\" Chinese Proverb

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Gerd Leonhard
gerd@mediafuturist.com
www.mediafuturist.com
www.music20book.com
Thanks for listening!