How would an iTunes model for data address licensing and ownership?
Gil Elbaz (Factual)
In the case of iTunes, in a single click I purchase a track, download it, establish licensing rights on my iPhone and up to four other authorized devices, and it’s immediately integrated into my daily life. Similarly, the deepest value will come for a marketplace that, with a single click, allows a developer to license data and have it automatically integrated into their particular application development stack. That might mean having the data instantly accessible via API, automatically replicated to a MySQL server on EC2, synchronized at Database.com, or copied to Google App Engine.
An iTunes for data could be priced from a single record/entity to a complete dataset. And it could be licensed for single use, caching allowed for 24 hours, or perpetual rights for a specific application.
I don’t think that moving data around and temporary access are part of this future. Otherwise I agree the model sounds appealing.
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