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---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [ipr] "The Economics of Open Content", MIT, Jan 23-24 From: "Darius Cuplinskas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, January 10, 2006 2:30 am To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Economics of Open Content" www.intelligenttelevision.com/opencontent.htm A new documentary television production company in New York Intelligent Television produces documentary programs for PBS and other networks. Every program we produce is made in close association with a library, museum, archive, or university. Among our partners are the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, MIT, the University of Virginia, Columbia University, USC, UCB, and the American Antiquarian Society. With the generous support of the Hewlett Foundation, I'm serving as the principal investigator of a year-long project I have designed on "the economics of open content." The project is a systematic look into why and how it makes sense for commercial companies and noncommercial institutions active in culture, education, and media to make media and certain materials widely available for free (and also how free services are morphing into commercial companies while retaining their peer-to-peer quality). The project builds upon written work that I completed earlier this year with the support of the Mellon Foundation and Ithaka on "Marketing Culture in the Digital Age" (http://www.intelligenttelevision.com/research2.html), and also upon my work as one of the ten members of the Mellon Foundation-supported national ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities (http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/cyber.htm). The project also informs the new economic models that In! telligent Television has been establishing for our own documentary work (see: http://creativearchive.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2005/04/transcript_pete_1.html). With the support of the Hewlett Foundation and MIT Open Courseware, Intelligent Television is organizing a two-day symposium at MIT on "The Economics of Open Content," on January 23 and 24, 2006. We are bringing together commercial representatives of most media industries--publishing, film, music, television, video, software, education/courseware, gaming--together with representatives of cultural and educational institutions who are innovative in this area and legal and business minds in the academy (Eric von Hippel from MIT Sloan, Terry Fisher from Harvard Law, Yochai Benkler from Yale Law) who are studying how to make this happen faster and better. People from Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Apple, AOL, Sony, Sprint, Samsung, Fujitsu, etc., will be there. New Yorker economics columnist and bestselling author (The Wisdom of Crowds) James Surowiecki will keynote at the Cambridge meeting. Jim's January 23 presentation will be titled "Openness as an Ethos." Program officers fr! om the Hewlett Foundation and Mellon Foundation will participate as well. It should be a very productive meeting. The audio files/proceedings from our previous Hewlett-funded symposium--from September 30, 2005, focused on television, video, and film--drew 140 people, including participants from Yahoo!, AOL, and other commercial companies; the Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle keynoted. Audio files from that meeting are now up online at: http://www.conference.archival.tv/index.php?title=Program Peter B. Kaufman _______________________________________________ Liste de discussion FSF France. http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-france
