Why 'freeconomics' don't add up

Chris Anderson's 'freeconomics' theory that pirating creates celebrity, which creates cash is fine for recording artists – but what about songwriters?Of the many professed experts who claim to have found the solution to the current economic upheaval faced by those industries who traditionally depended on copyright, one of the most vocal is Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail and editor-in-chief of Wired magazine. Anderson appeared at the SXSW Interactive conference last week to give a...

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