Dominic Young

Writings and more

Category: Copyright Hub

  • As you may know, I stepped down from The Copyright Hub earlier this year, two-and-a-half years into my planned one year tenure. The Hub is a fantastic, exhilarating, project which stands to create massive and positive change for creators. That is why it has attracted the wide-ranging support from an enormously diverse group of people, organisations,…

  • Back when my day job involved worrying about such things, I didn’t much like the online advertising market. As a publisher, it’s quite hard to love. Advertising works for publishers when they can charge a premium price for their ads, establish and defend a meaningful market share, turn a larger audience into higher yields and…

  • Much has been written in the last week or two about the death of newspapers. The announcement that the Independent will cease its print edition has prompted this hand-wringing and outpouring. The Independent’s hobbyist owner, Evgeny Lebedev, has offered up his own wisdom about the situation. In an interview with the Guardian he claims his…

  • As you may have seen elsewhere, I am going to be the new CEO of the Copyright Hub. While this was absolutely not what I had planned for myself, it’s too tempting an opportunity to pass up. I have been of the view for years that the problem with copyright is not the law, but…