I recently finished a presentation called “Building a Renewable Entertainment Franchise” for Brain Candy, LLC that discusses a new model for building and managing entertainment content/franchises. The presentation highlights the current challenges facing content owners in a digital age and touches on the more critical approaches to use when implementing this model. The renewable franchise […]
‘Building a Renewable Entertainment Franchise’
A summary of the Renewable Franchise Model developed by Brain Candy, LLC and used to build the collaborative commercial entertainment property, Runes of Gallidon.
DOJ, a subsidiary of the RIAA
Wired just posted about yet another DOJ appointment having come straight from the RIAA legal halls. That’s FIVE RIAA appointments. I am struggling – incredibly hard – to reconcile this trend in DOJ appointments with an administration that paints itself as forward-thinking and technically savvy. The current U.S. copyright and IP laws are subsidizing broken […]
Making of Gallidon, Part 7 – What’s in a Name?
Choosing a name for the world was an interesting experiment that involved not just finding something different, unique, and appealing, but also ensuring that we could get the URL for the domain and (hopefully) not infringe on an existing trademark.
Erth Chronicles
Just stumbled on an interesting site, Erth Chronicles, where Richard (James Johnson) is allowing artists to submit their original works for posting on the site. He’s the author behind the Erth Chronicles fiction (Book I, The Enemy’s Son, is available for purchase now), and he’s inviting artists to submit their works to him for posting […]