From the esteemed Dan Hunter comes the following:
From television (YouTube and Revver) to advertising
(craigslist and consumer-made TV ads), movies (Machinima), photography (Flickr
and iStockPhoto), and news (blogs and citizen journalism), technology is
enabling amateurs to produce and distribute high-quality content that people
want to watch, read, consume, re-use, and buy. Media and entertainment
companies are facing a range of challenging new issues.
On November 2, 2007, New York Law School’s Institute
for Information Law & Policy will host the inaugural Amateur Hour Conference
to bring together leaders in business, law and technology to focus on the
opportunities and challenges of user-generated content to traditional media
& entertainment businesses.
Confirmed speakers include Professor Clay Shirky (NYU
professor, and author of the forthcoming book “Here Comes Everybody”), Kai
Falkenberg (Editorial Counsel, Forbes Magazine), Nathan Freitas (Co-founder,
Cruxy.com), Heather Moosnick (VP Business Development, CBS Interactive Audience
Network), Brian Murphy (Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC), Marni
Pedorella (Vice President, Intellectual Property, NBC Universal), Stanley
Pierre-Louis (Vice-President and Associate General Counsel, Viacom Inc.), Lisa
Stancati (Assistant General Counsel, ESPN), Marty Schwimmer (The Trademark
Blog), David Sternbach (Director Legal & Business Affairs, A&E
Television Networks), and Ken Werner (President, Warner Bros. Domestic TV
Distribution).
Amateur Hour follows in the cutting-edge and
interdisciplinary tradition of New York Law School’s enormously successful State
of Play conferences, which for the last five years have brought together
scholars, technologists, and business leaders to study virtual worlds. The
Amateur Hour conference will begin a new series of conversations about the
changes that the Internet brings to media and entertainment.
Space is limited so please register early. We look forward to seeing you at Amateur Hour.
For conference schedule and registration please
visit: New York Law School-Amateur Hour.
I checked, and the registration fee is a delightfully participatory $50.