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The introduction of platforms, and especially publisher-platform partnerships, has created new forms of legal and technological lock-in on the publisher side, with dependencies on platform infrastructure posing serious barriers to publishers independently selling ebooks directly to consumers. Platforms have few incentives to support direct sales models that do not require licensing, as those models do not easily support tracking user behavior.
The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy
nyuengelberg.org
This is compounded by the fact that the original assignment from WoW to the minter occurs on WoW’s website where this IP assignment agreement exists, but future secondary sales occur on marketplaces like OpenSea which neither display nor have any functionality to facilitate execution on such an assignment agreement.
A Survey of NFT Licenses: Facts & Fictions
galaxy.com
AWS’ four-year head start gave Azure a second mover advantage: it instantly had the accumulated learnings from AWS, which launched 4 years earlier. But unlike Amazon, Microsoft already had enterprise distribution. Once Microsoft started including Azure credits and consumption in its existing enterprise deals, the business took off.
Don’t forget Microsoft - by John Luttig
luttig.substack.com
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