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.

Category: End Users

  • So, saving the media. How?

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

  • Were newspapers wrong about online? Kinda…

    Were newspapers wrong to go digital? asks Roy Greenslade, reporting on some very interesting research from the USA. He points out that many, if not most, newspapers could be more profitable if they closed their websites and just focused on print instead. I don’t think the mistake was going digital, unless any newspaper had obsolescence…

  • Permissions, babies and bathwater

    A few months ago I started seeing this when I went to Google sites…     Kind of funny, the privacy reminder. I’m guessing most people don’t see this because most people are logged in to Google most of the time and so have accepted their terms explicitly when they log in. But I’m not.…

  • What do you use, in the end? End (re)users and the evolution of licensing

    End users are the focus of everyone in the creative industries. But they’re strangely neglected. It’s time to think of them as active, not passive, customers. The customer is always, um, licenced End users are strange beasts, in the copyright world. They’re the ultimate goal of all creative endeavours… what’s the point of creating something…