links for 2011-02-17

"We live in interesting times. When The Guardian has an article with a headline that asks "Will Radiohead's The King of Limbs save the music industry?" You have to laugh. Why would they want to do that? And so it is with the iPad apps and the media publishing industry "Will Rupert Murdoch's The Daily save the newspaper and magazine industry?" Well, that's no laughing matter."

"Lawyers for some Righthaven defendants are arguing that the Review-Journal can’t, on the one hand, encourage readers to share—which always involves some copying when done with a computer—and then file a lawsuit demanding to be paid for the copying that they encouraged."

"Today’s announcement by Apple that the App Store will support a subscription model for users to pay creators for digital content is a declaration of the inevitable. But what does the change mean for experiences and experience design?"