Immediately, we contacted top News Corp executives, including Rupert Murdoch, and requested that all the video and audio of Jobs’ appearances at our AllThingsD conferences be made free for anyone to listen to forever (on Apple iTunes, of course). The company owned all our intellectual property, so we were nervous it might gate some of the most substantial interviews of tech’s most important visionary in his prime years. To sell them on the idea, we described it as a “gift to humanity.” To our surprise, they complied.
WSJ after Steve Jobs’ death.
