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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Google has asserted that this will adversely affect innovation, but those claims are premature. Corporations need to see privacy as another market ripe for innovation, one that can yield global profits, because adapting to EU concerns means extending your market reach across the world. Information & technology Innovation'

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. All in all, scale has provided some immense strategic benefits to large companies around the world — protecting many from entrepreneurial innovations that would otherwise threaten.

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Is Copyright Enforcement Censorship?

Harvard Business Review

To stop all the downloading , Wayne's record label must issue takedowns to newalbumreleases and/or RapidShare, which are protected from liability by the DMCA (as long as they are following the safe harbor provisions), and only I and the million downloaders are liable.