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Blame It All on Bowie Bonds?

By Howard Knopf, Esq.

There are some interesting stories being published blaming the current financial meltdown on - get this - David Bowie and his ?Bowie Bonds? from about ten years ago. Here's The Guardian and here's the Rolling Stone and here's the Mirror story on which the others are based. These bonds were an example of the ?securitisation? of IP - whereby investors get income based upon a reliable royalty

Full post as published by Excess Copyright on January 15, 2009 (boomark / email).