Tom Purves – Product Management, Fintech & AI

In a bold move against iTunes’ DRM, called Fairplay, the Norwegian Consumer Council has deemed it illegal in Norway, with France and Germany possibly following suit.

If only our policy makers had one iota of this imagination. The message Ottawa need to clue in to:

1. Digital protectionism is not how you promote culture

2. Digital protectionism is not how you promote cultural industry that matters.

3. Policy makers: Support fair use, support balanced copyright and support/reward open distribution models. End of story.

look for Michael Geist to have more to say about this at some point on this in a canadian context.

link: Norway declares iTunes Illegal

Alex said something brilliant (as he sometimes does) the other day. He was answering a question from an architecht on the Imagination Challenge. Roughly, the answer went:

With each major shift in society there is something different in centre of the wheel that is driving the change. This time it’s digital and it’s social.

No, you architects and industrial designers, this revolution isn’t about you. “You’ve had had your turn..” Now let us enjoy ours.

When we talk about design these days, think information design, think social, community, interaction and organizational design – don’t think industrial design, don’t think architecture.. That’s not what’s interesting in design right now. This design revolution is not tactile.

At least not (quite) yet…