Symposium 1: 3:45 – 5:15pm
Panel 2: Issues for Distribution: Networks and software and their impact on cultural distribution. This panel will discuss in detail the legal implications of creating and distributing your own content. The workshop will examine Creative Commons Licensing and explain what the implications are when used in the distribution of music, film, art and writing. The panel will look at where peer-to-peer distribution is and the proposed outlawing of software.
New platforms and new communications infrastructures are becoming available for self publishing and distribution. This panel will present an overview of the different mobile wireless technologies including GSM, Bluetooth, and 802.11. Content creators need to understand these technologies in order to create content that will work on these wireless distribution networks.
Different mobile wireless platforms (phones, handheld game consoles, BlackBerry, PDAs) combined with new network infrastructures will enable digital content creators to become their own publishers and distributors. Opening up the radio spectrum and creating Ad Hoc Networks which are not controlled by regulation or by Service Providers will mean that new business models for consumption will be possible.
Panel 1 speakers:
Barry Vercoe ( Co-Founder of MIT Media Lab and MPEG Pioneer) - Perspective on where digital audio tech is going with Mp4 and beyond. Professor Vercoe was a founding member of the MIT Media Laboratory in 1984, where he has pursued research in Music Cognition and Machine Understanding. His several Music Synthesis languages are used around the world, and a variant of his Csound and NetSound languages has recently been adopted as the core of MPEG-4 audio -- an international standard that enables efficient transmission of audio over the Internet. At the Media Lab he currently directs research in Machine Listening and Digital Audio Synthesis (Music, Mind and Machine group), and is Associate Academic Head of its graduate program in Media Arts and Sciences.
Benjamin Mako Hill is an technology and intellectual property researcher, activist, and consultant. He is currently working full time on research into asynchronous collaboration technologies as a graduate researcher at the in the . He has been an leader, developer, and contributor to the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community for more than a decade as part of the and projects.
http://mako.cc
Dr. Anne O'Connor, (National Broadcaster - RTE ) - Perspectives on plans for Public Broadcasting in Ireland and online policies for RTE.Dr Anne O'Connor is Special Adviser to the Director General at RTÉ, Ireland 's public service broadcasting organisation. Anne holds a variety of academic qualifications, has worked in various universities, and has also worked in the global IT industry, with Microsoft, Oracle, Digital/Compaq and Intel Corporations.
Dr. Linda Doyle, (PHD lecturer Trinity College Dublin)- Perspectives on Ad Hoc Networks and alternative broadcasting possibilities. Linda leads an interdisciplinary research team involving the Network & Telecommunications Research Group ( NTRG ) and the associated Disruptive Design Team ( DDT ). She is also the leader of the Emerging Networks Strand ( EN ) in the SFI funded Centre for Telecommunications Value-chain driven Research ( CTVR )
Alan Toner, Toner studied law in Trinity College Dublin and New York University , where he was subsequently a Fellow in the Information Law Institute, focussing on the countervailing impact of peer processes and information enclosure on cultural production and social life. He is a member of the Autonomedia editorial collective, joint administrator of the discussion site http://slash.autonomedia.org and sometime translator of critical texts and films from Italian and French. Since 2002 his work has focussed on leveraging p2p technologies such as Bit Torrent and eDonkey to enable distribution production of critical audio-visual works on sites such as V2V ( http://www.v2v.cc ) and New Global Vision ( http://www.ngvision.org ).
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