‘We Didn’t Want to See the Future’: Q&A With Ex-Sony Lawyer Steve Gordon
In 1999 at a Sony Music corporate meeting, the room was filled with Sony executives and attorneys from across the globe. At one point, one of the Sony attorneys gave a presentation on two music services. One was the Sony music service and the other was a tiny, fledgling service. The Sony service required users to go through multiple layers of Web sites in order to get to the songs they wanted. Then the Sony attorney demonstrated the other service. She typed in “Hey Jude.” Not only did the the Beatles version appear, but so did other versions. And — it was free.
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‘We Didn’t Want to See the Future’: Q&A With Ex-Sony Lawyer Steve Gordon
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