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From the Ted Talk by Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world

Unscramble the Blue Letters

Now, conventional wisdom says, "Well, hey, our intellectual property bnlgeos to us, and if someone tries to infringe it, we're going to get out our lawyers and we're going to sue them." Well, it didn't work so well for the record labels, did it? I mean, they took — They had a technology dtiursiopn, and rather than taking a business model innovation to correspond to that, they took and sought a legal solution and the industry that brought you Elvis and the belteas is now sunig children and is in danger of collapse.

Open Cloze

Now, conventional wisdom says, "Well, hey, our intellectual property _______ to us, and if someone tries to infringe it, we're going to get out our lawyers and we're going to sue them." Well, it didn't work so well for the record labels, did it? I mean, they took — They had a technology __________, and rather than taking a business model innovation to correspond to that, they took and sought a legal solution and the industry that brought you Elvis and the _______ is now _____ children and is in danger of collapse.

Solution

  1. suing
  2. belongs
  3. beatles
  4. disruption

Original Text

Now, conventional wisdom says, "Well, hey, our intellectual property belongs to us, and if someone tries to infringe it, we're going to get out our lawyers and we're going to sue them." Well, it didn't work so well for the record labels, did it? I mean, they took — They had a technology disruption, and rather than taking a business model innovation to correspond to that, they took and sought a legal solution and the industry that brought you Elvis and the Beatles is now suing children and is in danger of collapse.

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Important Words

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  4. business
  5. children
  6. collapse
  7. conventional
  8. correspond
  9. danger
  10. disruption
  11. elvis
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  17. labels
  18. lawyers
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  20. model
  21. property
  22. record
  23. solution
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  27. technology
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