Another article has popped up today on amateur innovation. The authors make a case for the rising tide of digital content producers threatening established media companies being a sort-of post-napster Act II.

The majority of the article deals with the battleground of digital copyright law. An interesting point arises about government regulation interrupting innovation in an emerging technology landscape; making the case that iTunes would not have existed without unauthorized file sharing paving the way.

I'm most interested in what the rise of this empowered amateur will create:
"...distinctions between those who consume and those who create are disappearing"

In a point that I believe Nicolas also alludes to, if creative production helps drive our economy, how will widespread individual contributions distributed and adopted instantaneously through the net ultimately change the shape of organizations, business, and the very way stuff gets done?