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are owned by some group
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or by some people who have
an interest in maintaining it.

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And that you know that
is not such a loony idea.

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It's in fact the solution
to a lot of these problems.

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Imagine a world in
which one of the things

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owned by a corporation was
the song happy birthday.

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In fact
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an Aol/Time Warner subsidiary
holds the copyright.

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In the past
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it has demanded
over $ 10000

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to allow you to hear anyone
sing this popular song

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in a film.
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We didn’t pay.
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We preferred to use the money
to fly our crew to Boston

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and Los Angeles to bring
you the following story

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Comparing the marketing
of yesteryear

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to the marketing of today
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is like comparing
a b. b. gun to a smart bomb.

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It's not the same
as when I was a kid

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or even when the people
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who are young adults
today were kids.

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It's much more sophisticated
and it's much more pervasive.

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It's not that products
themselves are bad or good.

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It's the notion of
manipulating children

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into buying the products.
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In 1998 Western
International Media

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Century City and Lieberman
Research Worldwide

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conducted a study on nagging.

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