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Today's panel on darknets
In a few hours I'll be moderating a panel at South by Southwest Interactive called The future of darknets: Can Hollywood see the light? I came up with the title -- as a call to move the debate beyond the current stalemate -- and asked these panelists to join in the discussion:
- Kori Bernards of the MPAA
- Ian Clarke of the Freenet Project
- Heather Champ, community manager of Flickr
- Mark Ishikawa, president of BayTSP
- Dave Toole, CEO of Outhink
Will post here later with the aftermath. For anyone else blogging, using the tag "darknets" should suffice.
March 12, 2006 at 11:28 PM in darknets | Permalink
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This was a terrific panel, not only informative but fun. What I understood from the MPAA's Kori Bernards is that Hollywood is going to see the light when they can turn on the switch. In the meantime, I was surprised and saddened to see that many people who create in Darknetland have been intimidated by large rightsholders, and are using far fewer of their rights under copyright law than they actually have. Doc filmmakers had the same problem, and they created a guide to "fair use"--the part of copyright law that lets people use copyrighted material without permission or payment, under some circumstances. (Rightsholders don't like others to know that fair use is actually useable.) The guide is highly applicable to Darknet creators, whether they're making work for family or for the marketplace. The guide and an FAQ spelling out the legal logic are available, along with a guide to FREE use, at centerforsocialmedia.org/fairuse.htm. Enjoy!
Posted by: Pat Aufderheide | Mar 16, 2006 5:37:42 AM
