Hi Bob,Well, it would be great to be involved in any which way. I would love to have a chance to speak at IBC.
I'm assuming Kendra Initiative does not have a budget for a venue and also limited resources to organise a venue. If we were provided with a venue at no cost then that would be great.
Are present regulations dysfunctional? Well, it all depend on what content owners want. If they want to make money from their content then demonising their consumers wont help.
If content owners really want to make money from their content then they'll have to make their content available via the application or device of the consumers' choice, in the format that the consumer chooses, in the quality that the consumer specifies, when they want it, paying for it in the way they want to pay for it. Or else the consumer will walk. Harsh realities I know. And industry is have a real hard time waking up to the fact that the consumer is king. It's a bitter pill and hits the ego where it hurts. Consumers hold the purse string, after all.
On the 10th of May I shared a BAPLA panel session called "Adapt and Survive: Challenges for the content industry" with Tom Loosemore, Head of Strategic Innovation at the BBC. Tom said that "scarcity will struggle" and content owners should "embrace the 'wisdom of crowds'". I agreed totally with that. Actually, content owners should embrace the wisdom of their consumers. Until the content owners listen to their consumers it doesn't matter how many regulations are put in place - the consumers will do what brings them convenience. Unfortunately, illegal mp3 file sharing knocks the socks off most legal outlets in terms of interoperability, convenience, catalogue size and providing a one-stop-shop for all content. Shame.
Cheers Daniel On 22 May 2007, at 12:09, Bob Auger - Cue Entertainment wrote:
Hi DanielThe Theme day session at IBC this year is going to concentrate on Copyright issues Copyright - or right to copy? Are present regulations dysfunctional?http://www.ibc.org/cgi-bin/conf_session_cms.cgi?id=21and not the wider issues of metadata, content identification , search and so on. As I indicated at the time, the committee was still deciding on the programme contents andthey felt that regulation is the 'hot topic' for 2007.Of course, it does not stop Kendra holding an event in Amsterdam that is timed to coincide with IBC, perhaps on the same day as the session above? If you like, I can see what the are the chances of a room within the RAI centre - I'll be speaking to the Conference managerlater today, so let me know. Bob. Daniel Harris wrote:Hi Bob,In the KendraSummit20070309-2.wma you mentioned that Kendra Initiative could be involved in IBC07 somehow. Has there been any movement on this idea?01:45:25 Bob said "I'd like to push for quarterly meetings."01:45:45 Bob said "So, it needs to be kind of maybe before IBC or even as part of IBC"01:45:57 Ron said "Bob's on the... one of steering committee for IBC."01:46:08 Bob said "Unofficially, we do have a session on rights, metadata, content..."Could you say more about the session that you mentioned? Cheers Daniel