Lynne Kiesling While we’re discussing music, we are on the verge of another nail in the coffin of Internet radio, in the form of royalty payments. In mid-April the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board decided to affirm a prior ruling it had made to raise royalty rates that Internet-only radio stations pay: Released March 1, the …
Lynne Kiesling Such is the assertion in an article in today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) on how big box retailing is changing music retailing. In past decades, deejays and music critics helped shape musical trends. Today, many music industry executives agree, the big boxes have become the new tastemakers. Even as compact disc sales …
Lynne Kiesling I’m going to spend a couple of days in London on the way home from my conference, and in the course of looking up a shop address I found this fantastic resource: Street Sensation. For many neighborhoods in London, you click on a map and there will be a panning landscape of all …
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Lynne Kiesling The last couple of weeks have been crazy here in KP land, with things I’ll be able to share in a bit. Today I am off to England (YAY!) for a Liberty Fund conference that I helped to organize. The readings are selections from Schumpeter, Coase, and Hayek. Here’s the motivation: lots of …
Lynne Kiesling I’d like to chime in a little bit on the point that Mike just raised about state lawmakers and retail competition. Although there’s plenty of blame to go around with respect to the inertial state of retail competition, I believe the primary cause is the incentives facing state legislators. State regulators operate under …
Lynne Kiesling Conoco Phillips and Tyson Foods are going to announce a new joint venture today. They: … will announce a strategic alliance … to produce and market the next generation of renewable diesel fuel, which will help supplement the traditional petroleum-based diesel fuel supply. The alliance plans to use beef, pork and poultry by-product …
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Lynne Kiesling I overstated the case a bit when I said that CFLs are not dimmable, and Ed Reid helpfully pointed out Noli Control dimmable can lighting CFLs in his comment on my previous post about CFLs and policy. See also the the dimmable CFLs page at 1000bulbs.com. I amend my claim thusly: they are …
Lynne Kiesling Jerry Ellig had a commentary in the Richmond Times-Dispatch last week about retail electricity choice in Virginia. The state’s governor and legislature, ignoring evidence that shows the benefits of retail choice and that customers actually, actively want retail choice, have decided that customers can’t be trusted to make that determination for themselves. They …
Lynne Kiesling At some level all of this incandescent light bulb ban stuff is a bit ludicrous. If you look at the light bulb as an historian of technology, you probably think pretty quickly about the switch from whale oil to kerosene as a lighting fuel source in the mid-19th century. In that case the …
Lynne Kiesling I’ve been so head-down-focus-focus-focus for the past couple of weeks that I have neglected to link approvingly to the Wall Street Journal’s Energy Roundup blog, which is consistently chock full of good stuff. Take, for example, Mark Gongloff’s post about global-warming-adaptive investment strategies, arising from Charles Easterbrook’s April Atlantic Monthly article on the …
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