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Unbundling of legal media and publishing

By Kevin O'Keefe

Om Malik, a technology writer and founder of Giga Omni Media, penned an interesting piece this week about the unbundling of traditional media. Malik sees the unbundling of traditional media as analogous to the unbundling of telecom brought about the 1996 Telecom Act. The unbundling of access to the telecom facilities owned by the local companies gave competitors access to the so called "last-mile" that led to a customer's house. The result was rampant competition from traditional telephone and Internet based services. Now, per Malik, we're seeing the unbundling of traditional media as the Internet opens distribution platforms. Many of us confuse the media companies as creators of media and content. In reality, their barrier to entry was ownership of distribution platforms...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on February 25, 2011 (boomark / email).