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This is interesting in the context of all of the patent discussions that have been happening lately. Is Turntable.fm a patentable invention? Should it be? I ha
by MartinCron 15y ago
This is interesting in the context of all of the patent discussions that have been happening lately. Is Turntable.fm a patentable invention? Should it be?
I haven't used it myself and I don't have a fixed opinion on the matter. On the surface it appears to be both non-obvious and novel (no prior art).
- jarek 15y agoI'm having difficulty formulating what is patentable about a website that allows users to create music playlists. What exactly is the invention?
- MartinCron 15y agoIt's not creating a playlist. It's creating playlists in the context of social interactions with other (representations of) people, some of whom are also creating playlists, some of whom are giving you feedback on the playlist. If the bar is set by Amazon's "buy stuff in one click because we remember how to sell stuff to you from the last time we sold stuff to you" patent, then this is in the same ballpark.
- jarek 15y agoWell I don't really consider "buy stuff in one click because we remember how to sell stuff to you from the last time we sold stuff to you" to be deserving of a patent either but hey...
- ericd 15y agoTo be fair, I think the sum of Turntable.fm, between the voting, the avatars in a virtual club with headbobbing, 5 DJs, DJ points, etc is a lot more complex than the fairly obvious "remember what you entered last time so you don't have to enter it again" one click buy button.
- MartinCron 15y agoI was using the Amazon patent as an example of the status quo, not as an opinion for how things are supposed to be.