Here is a piece I have just produced for Broadcast magazine.
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Paul Getty’s proclamation that ‘intellectual property is the oil of the twenty first century’ may one day become infamous. In the network age, scarcity-driven ‘commodity’ models of media are under threat. Desperate to maintain this precious but increasingly ephemeral substance, the entertainment industries have demanded [...]
I’m experimenting with the title GHOST SHIFT for our next film; this article in FORTUNE Magazine has some interesting material about how use of factories after-hours delivers problematic perfect counterfeits. At which point does the copy cease to be a copy?
It seems my catchphrase at IDFA Talks 2007, ‘Embrace The Pirate’, is catching on. Over at Renew Media, Pamela Cohn (thanks, Pamela!) reviews my talk, noting quite rightly that I was feeling a bit ecstatic (cf., a bit tired and emotional) at the time. The basic gist (first time I’ve formulated it this way; I’d [...]
My comment has just been published in the UK’s New Media Age.
Here’s an excerpt:
At the same time, we’re really interested in the dozens of examples of content producers working with what we’ve heard called the reverse distribution model. Here, content is released free online, then monetised through sales in traditional old media outlets. We know [...]
I did chat for about 45 minutes on Sat 24th Nov. at Mediamatic, Amsterdam as part of the Any Media Documentary Course @ IDFA.
These were the notes I was going to speak from, but because, uh, people started interrupting fairly early on, I got sidetracked. It turned into a brisk, quite dilatory romp through [...]
I didn’t know until just now what the deal was with the talk I’m giving in Amsterdam at IDFA. Now I understand. I think.
Talking About a Generation II – Precedence, Practice and the Present.
Update: I now remember. This was at Banff. Canada. I got off the plane straight from London and somehow the organisers had, for some reason, booked me to speak 2 hours later. That’s why I a) didn’t make sense and b.) didn’t remember it. Also [...]