On 2008-12-17 15:21, Michael Foord wrote:
> Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
>> John Pinner wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> This year PyCon USA has said that all talks will be recorded and if
>>> you are not happy with this, don't submit a talk.
>>>
>>> If we were to do the same it would save the talks organisers and
>>> recording crew a *lot* of trouble. I mean a **lot**
>>>
>>> Comments please.
>>>
>>> John
>>> -- 
>>>
>>>   
>> The only reasons I can think of not wanting to publicize the talk is
>> protecting intellectual property, preventing legal actions or being
>> ashamed of your performance :-) Except for the latter I think that it
>> is more out of commercial interest then anything else and in that case
>> it is, in my opinion, unfair to piggyback on an open conference like
>> EuroPython without contributing in a financial way to EuroPython.
>>
>> So in short I agree, but exceptions should be possibly if this would
>> help us.
>>
> It is not making exceptions that provide the benefit... PyCon US at
> least feels that there is no reason to accept a public talk where the
> speaker refuses to allow it to be made public... 

There's a difference between allowing someone else to publish your
talk or go public with it yourself.

There's also a difference in giving a talk to a live audience which
is over when its over or having your performance persist on the net
until eternity.

I'm -1 on rejecting talks from people who want to keep control
over how they go live on the net or if at all.

> They have no prevision
> for exceptions and therefore no need to check when preparing recordings
> for release.

I think that's a wrong approach.

Besides: Recording and editing sessions is a lot of work and that work
is better spent on more useful activities, such as e.g. getting a
complete list of talk *slides* on the net.

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