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Originally Posted by Visuddhi
Cost3 = Author + Copyright owner + Publisher
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There's a misunderstanding here. In my formula the components are roles not actual organizations, persons or other entities. So the cost always will be 'Author + Copyright owner + Publisher + Retailer' even if some of the roles in the formula are performed by the same player.
So there are some problems with your scenario. For one it is not clear what Apple would be in it. Also the formula 'Cost3 = Author + Copyright owner + Publisher' can never be real. A retailer is absolutely necessary otherwise you cannot buy the content. And while it happens that sometimes the copyright owner and the publisher is the same or the author and the copyright owner is the same it almost never happens in practice that the publisher and the retailer is the same. It is not complicated though: retailer is the player who collects the money from the customer and who has a contract with the publisher. Apple indeed has this role in some cases but for other content than music it is a negligible ratio of the whole content business. This is exactly why it is unacceptable that Apple wants to collect money for more content: it has simply no role in the business.