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Voice Hero: The Inventor of Karaoke Speaks
- benbreen 12y ago"Most people don’t believe me when I say this, but I don’t think karaoke would have grown like it did if there had been a patent on the first machine. Besides, I didn’t build the thing from scratch. I had the idea for the business model. The amp, the microphone, the eight-track player—even the ¥100 box machine—all had patents on them. Today, I could take out a patent on the business model, have someone else make it and get the royalties from the original idea. But at the time, getting a patent for a business model just didn’t seem possible."
- lazythrowaway 12y agoGreat article - worth reading.
- sargun 12y agoI was recently reading only a slightly related article about Karaoke. Apparently in other countries, there has been a rage of killings due to certain songs being Karaoked. See the Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_killings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Way_killings
- neduma 12y agoRelated - How Karaoke Conquered The World http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/17/karaoke-music-memoir-opinions-book-review_0217_fran_bigman.html http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/17/karaoke-music-memoir-opinio...
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