IMD Forum for 1/17/07: John Buckman
Speaker: John Buckman
Time: Wednesday, January 17, 6-8pm
Location: USC's Robert Zemeckis Center for Digital Arts (RZC),
Room 201 Zemeckis Media Lab (ZML)
Title: "Pissing off The Industry for Fun and Profit"
John Buckman runs Magnatune, the record label that proclaims "We are
not Evil" as well as BookMooch, a book exchange site whose original
slogan was "Never Buy a Book Again", as well as a member of the board
of directors of Creative Commons.
John will be talking about a model for Entrepreneurs in the Internet
Age, where Big Media remains mostly clueless, and where mass culture
movements, inspired by Linux and Open Source (such as Creative
Commons) are not challenging the Old Ecology, but simply ignoring it
altogether and creating a new, parallel ecology with its own rules,
dynamics and economics. How big this new world will get, we don't
yet know, but it's a great place to play around and maybe make a few
million before you're forty.
Wikipedia bio here.
View his Magnatune blog here and hear an online interview here.
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