Users, Generate Some Content on Peer Production / Copyright

by on March 15, 2007 · 2 comments

There’s Viacom vs. Gootube in the courts of law.

And here are some of the relevant discussions in Washington, D.C.:

At the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus’ State of the Net Conference 2007, there was a panel discussion entitled, “User-Generated Content – Can Copyright Tolerate Mixing & Mashing?” Rob Pegoraro of The Washington Post moderated. Panelists were Jim DeLong of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Pam Samuelson of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and Steven Starr of Revver.com. Video here. (See if you have a better experience with it than I did.)

And tomorrow, PFF is having an event on Capitol Hill titled “What Goes Up Must Come Down: Copyright and Process in the Age of User-Posted Content.”

This is the age of user-generated content. Let’s hear what you think of these events in the comments.

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Jim Harper

Jim Harper / Jim is the Director of Information Policy Studies at The Cato Institute, the Editor of Web-based privacy think-tank Privacilla.org, and the Webmaster of WashingtonWatch.com. Prior to becoming a policy analyst, Jim served as counsel to committees in both the House and Senate.

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