Comments on: Pearson wants developers to remix its Dickens, Dorling Kindersley

By: madhatter9

madhatter9 — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 23:26:06 +0000

As an illustrator, all I can see are the thousands of hours of old (yes, I know some too old to matter) and new illustration, its usage unable to command 1 cent of secondary rights fees, because they were contracted out, I’m sure. That’s ok, though, billions to the corp, hundreds of thousands to the app peeps, and nothing to the original creators, welcome to the future, artists, where remixers will make 10,000 x what you do, with your work.

By: Lorraine Hopping

Lorraine Hopping — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 15:22:31 +0000

As a science geek, author, game designer, recovering literature major, the creative possibilities here feel endless and exciting. Crucial, that question about rights and ROI for the new products, but I’m intrigued.

By: Giles Bailey

Giles Bailey — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:27:51 +0000

Interesting example in the private sector of the now established public sector trend of Open Data. This is being driven in the public sphere by cost effective innovation through the use of public assets, the need for transparency in government and the longer term desire to reduce public sector costs. Interesting to see that the commercial world is looking at the same trends to see if commercial value can be extracted from existing assets