Australian intellectual property lawyers, Dilanchian Lawyers & Consultants, blog on IP, commercialisation and business law http://www.dilanchian.com.au Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:40:57 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.dilanchian.com.au/images/M_images/edit.png http://www.dilanchian.com.au Australian intellectual property lawyers, Dilanchian Lawyers & Consultants, blog on IP, commercialisation and business law http://www.dilanchian.com.au/general-items/television-program-costs-per-episode.html The money men at PBL Media and its private equity owner, CVC Asia Pacific, are big fans of Ramsay. Kitchen Nightmares and Hell's Kitchen cost Nine an estimated A$30,000 and A$15,000 an episode, compared with about A$1 million for each episode of Nine's hit local drama Underbelly and about A$300,00 an episode for its new reality show Domestic Blitz. TV chief tells of recipe for success , Rear Window column, The Australian Financial Review, 30 May 2008, p. 48. Further reading: Ramsay's net worth - A recipe to make a high net worth celebrity chef (ip/a-recipe-to-make-a-high-net-worth-celebrity-chef.html) PBL Media - Billions made with Internet business exit strategies (ip/billions-made-with-internet-business-exit-strategies.html) and DVRs and video on demand in Australia (ip/dvrs-and-video-on-demand-in-australia.html) Channel Nine - Think digital, think future proofing (ip/think-digital-think-future-proofing.html) Television formats law - Copyright traps for television formats (ip/copyright-traps-for-television-formats.html) Thu, 29 May 2008 14:00:00 +0100 http://www.dilanchian.com.au/ip/how-to-select-a-suitable-business-model-deal-or-contract-3.html Is your business seeking to collaborate with others but is unsure how to go about it? Are you unsure of the options, legal jargon and financial terms of engagement? Here's the classic process to unblocking this log jam. Business relationships involve deals, deal making, business models and contracts. How do these concepts differ? How do you select the best option for a particular situation? This post illustrates our specialisation in helping clients define their business relationships. It's part of doing business and more broadly, business structuring and enterprise structuring. Wed, 28 May 2008 10:11:14 +0100 http://www.dilanchian.com.au/ip/report-lists-top-six-ict-trends-2.html A new report by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) highlights six trends in the Information Communications Technology (ICT) sector. The report suffers from a fixation on technology. Its comfort zone is bits, bytes and gizmos. Equal space should have been given to use made of IT and communications by business and consumers and the wide-ranging implications of changing patterns of use. The 18 page report is titled Top six trends in communications and media technologies, applications and services: possible implications (http://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/_assets/main/lib310658/top_six_trends.pdf) (PDF file). Wed, 21 May 2008 09:23:05 +0100 http://www.dilanchian.com.au/ip/robert-mondavi-and-the-commercialisation-of-leeuwin-estate-2.html Naked ladies dancing on the tongue. This is how I responded on first tasting Art Series Chardonnay (http://www.leeuwinestate.com.au/index.php?page=84) at the cellar door of Leeuwin Estate in 2004. Hearing my uncensored appreciation, the man serving me at the cellar door, Mr D. Moore, told me a story. He told me about the wine's background. It is arguably Australia's greatest Chardonnay. It's almost A$100 a bottle. Sun, 18 May 2008 13:43:24 +0100 http://www.dilanchian.com.au/ip/speed-pays-in-ip-commercialisation-2.html Speed pays. You already know that customers pay more if you can deliver fast with no reduction in quality. Speed wins. Speed is a critical pre-requisite to be competitive in markets. Speed in innovation pays and wins. In a commercialisation venture it is helpful to measure speed. Get a measure of the speed of change of intellectual property and the agility of the management team, business processes, methodologies and technology. Fri, 16 May 2008 05:22:03 +0100 http://www.dilanchian.com.au/ip/structured-networks-and-the-next-internet-wave-2.html Sydney Olympics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Olympics) presented Nikki Webster in the Australian experience of going swimming. (*) More than water skills will be needed beyond the Beijing Olympics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Olympics) for Australian online businesses to survive and thrive against the next internet wave. From 1995 the web encouraged water sports. Today the internet has moved beyond surfing. The question here is how should Australian online businesses compete in the years ahead to serve local, international or global markets. Tue, 13 May 2008 14:00:00 +0100 http://www.dilanchian.com.au/ip/social-medias-deep-well-2.html When did social media or online social networking start? Was it a few years ago off the back of MySpace, Facebook and Web 2.0? No. It was thriving in San Francisco and the Bay Area before Mark Zuckerberg, twenty-something CEO and founder of Facebook, was born. Fri, 09 May 2008 13:48:39 +0100 http://www.dilanchian.com.au/ip/business-endurance-depends-mostly-on-you-2.html What is the secret of enduring greatness for a company? Jim Collins has an answer. Collins is a prominent writer on business management (http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/18/news/companies/enduring_greatness.fortune/index.htm) and author of business books which are among the all time best sellers. He wrote Good to Great (http://www.amazon.com/Good-Great-Companies-Leap-Others/dp/0066620996/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8 s=books qid=1209605202 sr=8-1) and co-authored Built to Last (http://www.amazon.com/Built-Last-Successful-Visionary-Companies/dp/0060566108/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8 s=books qid=1209605202 sr=8-3). An excellent overview of Good to Great is the one here (http://www.ndarala.com/index.cfm?id=996) by Jim Belshaw. In his recent article in Fortune magazine, The secret of enduring greatness, Collins revisits his familiar theme of business survival and endurance. His data includes who's in and out of the Fortune 500 list. And this is what he concludes is the secret of enduring greatness for a company: Whether you prevail or fail, endure or die, whether you make it onto the Fortune 500, and whether you stay there, depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you. Wed, 07 May 2008 14:00:00 +0100 http://www.dilanchian.com.au/ip/six-fashion-hints-for-entrepreneurs-3.html Fashion, industrialisation and entrepreneurship (commercialisation-knowledge-management/special-collection-entrepreneurship-to-76.html) are forever linked. Something old. The word entrepreneur was made fashionable by someone who grew rich as a cotton factory entrepreneur. The French economic theorist, Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832), is credited as the first in continental Europe to write about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. He was inspired by Adam Smith. Mon, 05 May 2008 14:00:00 +0100 http://www.dilanchian.com.au/ip/cue-intellectual-property-law-advice-2.html This is the May 2008 issue of Cue, the Dilanchian email newsletter. Cue is a monthly selected list of our Library (general-items/library.html) articles and Lighbulb (lightbulb-dilanchian-ip-blog-/index.php) blog posts on IP and business law. 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