Nov
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22nd
Essay: Stop Paying Middlemen for My Content
Revenue models for online content have hurt artists and writers, argues Jaron Lanier in an op-ed for the New York Times entitled “Pay Me for My Content.” Lanier, an interdisciplinary scholar-in-residence at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of California at Berkeley, is a writer, developer and researcher who’s been credited with coining the term “virtual reality” and has worked on a range of projects, including acting as an adviser on the film Minority…