This panel composed of Stephen Selznick, Narendra Pachkhede and Jamie King covered a selection of key new media @ IP landmark moments.
The knowledge economy and legal implication over time
Stephen kick started this talk with an overview of the legal and economical implication of the international copyright laws, a review of the past 10 years in new media law and a preview of what to come.
Over the past ten years we have seen a globalization and harmonization of traditional domestic law.
Legitimatization of digital right (as opposed to analog rights)
- Recognizing the right to authorize and communicate
- Retransmission of distance signals
- Emerging protection for formats
- Technical protection measures
- Privacy of electronic documents and personal information
Electronic Digital commerce is now recognized as commerce
Recognizing the protection of business methodologies by mean of a computer, sometime the idea is a new business.
Migration from the enforcement of the individual IP monopoly in favor of collective administration:
- Music rights
- Peer to peer sharing
- Lending rights
- Performance rights
- Rights management
- Recognition of user rights
[Photo: Boris Chow, one of the members of our winning New Media Slam team.]
IP and artistic interventions
Norendra Pachkhede covered some points of IP policies in Canada from the government perspective vs international.. and how artists interventions are some time successful in enforcing IP rights.
Key point from his presentation: IP is the fastest growing export item.
Jamie King
Jamie contributing editor of Mute Magazine spoke about Peet to Peer, sharing and privacy, network and information control, new system of cultural production and remunation.
He was a key contributor to the Geneva declaration on the future of the world intellectual property organization
His colourful views on the world and IP not shared by everyone on the panel, showed us the reality of the ongoing issue of IP in Canada and around the world.
I'm not sure that I agree with him on a few items. Stephen's views are more in line with my own believes. However, I do feel that a shift in copyright laws is needed with a global solution and enforcement policy.