{"id":3713,"date":"2006-12-07T05:25:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T09:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/12\/07\/ms-buys-weedshare-patent-will-zune-u"},"modified":"2006-12-07T05:30:59","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T09:30:59","slug":"ms-buys-weedshare-patent-will-zune-users-be-paid-to-share","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2006\/12\/07\/ms-buys-weedshare-patent-will-zune-users-be-paid-to-share\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Buys WeedShare Patent; Will Zune Users Be Paid to Share?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/#120606zune2\">probably not immediately<\/a>, although some think it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/entry\/microsoft-buys-weedshares-superdistribution-rev-share-ip-implementation-in\/#When:04:53:00Z\">certainly on the way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weedshare.com\/\">WeedShare<\/a> came out, major labels treated its model &#8212; paying ordinary fans for sharing music with other buyers &#8212; as a passing fad rather than a sign of things to come. They refused to license it, never giving it <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/media\/content_and_control\">the fair shot it deserved<\/a>.<br \/>\nToday, it&#8217;s increasingly impossible to ignore the potential business benefits of <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/12\/13\">embracing taste sharing tools<\/a>, among many other pathways to reach fans. The Zune&#8217;s sharing features may be incredibly limited, but it is yet another sign that relying on fans to help drive sales is getting a more serious look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: probably not immediately, although some think it&#8217;s certainly on the way. When WeedShare came out, major labels treated its model &#8212; paying ordinary fans for sharing music with other buyers &#8212; as a passing fad rather than a sign of things to come. They refused to license it, never giving it the fair shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}