Re:Judge dismisses dealers' lawsuit against Tesla's retail s...
by felipemnoa on Sunday January 06, 2013 @02:07PM
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Replace car franchise with YouTube and and factories with content creators. Now imaging that Google wants to push laws so that content creators cannot build their own video sites but instead must be licensed to sites like youtube for the simple reason that youtube was a huge and risky investment. If it sounds ridiculous for Google to do the same thing that dealers did why should the dealers be able to do it?
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Re:Judge dismisses dealers' lawsuit against Tesla's retail s...
by sophacles on Sunday January 06, 2013 @02:30PM
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Not the same thing. The product is not the videos, it's the ads. A more appropriate analogy would be Google selling other video sites access to the ad serving technology, then when that site becomes popular, creating special youtube sub-site that serves identical videos, and telling ad purchasers they can buy ads on the new youtube sub-site for $X or on the other site for $y where $x < $y.
The analogy breaks down here, because IP, licensing and so on interfere with direct analogy.