Dominic Young

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I’ve been around the news media and the internet since the beginning. I am interested in copyright as the basis for a thriving and balanced creative sector and society. Also interested in how the failure of copyright and other laws has led to terrible outcomes for the internet and everyone who uses it. I’ve done a lot of things around these issues.

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  • Netflixifying news? Think again…

    “Netflix for News”. That’s a phrase I’ve started hearing in the last month. It refers to an idea about how to save the news industry. I think most people who say it are suggesting a single subscription which users would pay, but which would give them access a wide range of news sites – a…

  • Actually doing it

    As some people will notice, my flurries of activity on this blog and elsewhere are somewhat random. I am deeply passionate about the issues around copyright, because they impinge so heavily on so many other things – economic, cultural, political, personal. One of the reasons I have written about it is to try to explain…

  • So, saving the media. How?

    How to save the media and transform the internet, part one

  • Rebooting copyright (blog)

    Ah hello hello hello. Long time no, um, blog. I’ve been busy going back to first principles and working out how we can adapt to a world in which the failure of copyright seems to be collapsing the media ever more quickly. I’m still obsessive about copyright, of course, but I have begun to wonder…