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...That strategy helps explain why Bertelsmann is teaming with Napster, angering other established record companies that have taken the Internet service to court for copyright infringement. While details haven't been finalized, Bertelsmann is close to announcing a technical solution that will allow Napster to charge a monthly subscription fee in exchange for legal access to record company music. Similar solutions will have to be worked out for content transferred to set-top boxes and mobile phones, as well. "What we have to realize is that it is easier to steal intellectual property than it is to get legal access...
...other lesson Disney has learned is to share the cost. In Tokyo, Disney gets a management fee for licensing its brand to DisneySea, but it has invested virtually nothing in the resort. In France the company now owns only 39% of the property. In Hong Kong, Disney has paid only $310 million for a 43% stake in a venture that is valued at around $4 billion...
...does Harvard pay its bills? The answer is, it doesn't. We do. Every year all students--even those who choose to live off campus--pay a "Student Services Fee" that, according to the student handbook, "covers College services and facilities provided by the houses and Freshman Dean's Office." This fee--$1689.00 for the 2000-2001 school year--factors in the costs of energy consumption for all shared house facilities used by students--common rooms, lounge areas, and, yes, laundry facilities. Thus, to borrow the words of one administrator, Harvard is essentially "double dipping," charging students for the energy...
...fend off similar legislation here, U.S. manufacturers are scrambling to devise recycling programs of their own--and hoping to make a buck while they're at it. Last November, IBM launched the first nationwide program; it charges computer users a $30 shipping-and-handling fee to take even an ancient PC off their hands. Hewlett-Packard plans to launch its consumer-PC take-back program in March. Regional efforts--such as Sony's "recycling days" begun in Minnesota last fall--have sprung up from Oregon to New York...
...NAPSTER? When Bertelsmann boss Thomas Middelhoff announced that the free music service would start charging a subscription fee by summer, a lot of people were surprised--including Napster CEO Hank Barry. "We haven't decided on a time schedule at all," Barry told Reuters. So what's holding it up? Before Napster can charge for downloads, it has to cut licensing-fee deals with most of the record companies (not just sugar daddy Bertelsmann), many of which are still suing Napster for "pirating" their music. As long as the labels prefer punitive damages to a piece...