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Scholars, Executives Discuss Future of Digital Media At Harvard Conference

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 19, 2003 - 11:33am.
Cambridge, Mass. -- Nearly 100 digital media legal scholars, executives and other experts gathered Thursday at Harvard Law School to discuss possible future business models in the rapidly changing arena of Internet-distributed entertainment. The conference was organized by Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and analyst firm Gartner G2. Topics discussed included digital rights management schemes, the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) recent filing of copyright infringement lawsuits against individual music file-swappers, and how a compulsory licensing program for the record industry -- which would essentially legalize file-sharing while taxing it somehow to pay creators -- could be implemented. "Today's digital rights management can easily become tomorrow's political rights management," said Electronic Freedom Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow. "The same system that we are increasingly putting in place allowing the record industry to survey your hard disk would allow the government to survey your hard disk with a different purpose."
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/home?wid=10&func=viewSubmission&sid=88
http://news.com.com/2100-1025-5079007.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34017-2003Sep19.html
tags: Digital Media | Harvard | Scholars | Executives |



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