If you put all the world’s knowledge into an AI model and use it to make something new, who owns that and who gets paid? This is a completely new problem that we’ve been arguing about for 500 years.
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Email newsletters unlocked a new way to pay for content, but is this a tool or a network? You can write all you like, but how do you get readers? And is the take rate 10% or 90%?
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We’ve been arguing about newspaper business models for a decade, and none of the questions have changed, but now things are heating up. Should internet platforms ‘pay for news content’, and is this a competition problem, or is this really a tax on links, and a subsidy?
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1990: Newspapers will win on the information superhighway
2000: Mobile operators will own the customer
2015: Car companies, TV companies...