Thursday, February 25, 6:00-7:30 pm Harvard Law School
On February 25, 2010, Lawrence Lessig will deliver a talk on fair use and politics in online video from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. Come in person, or tune in to a live webcast at http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig.
In conjunction with the Cambridge event, OVA is hosting screenings in cities around the world. Many of these screenings will be followed by special presentations. In New York, check out a curation by the ReMixed Media Festival. In Los Angeles, take part in a Critical Commons workshop. If you’re in the San Francisco Bay Area, check out a live audiovisual demonstration by Eclectic Method at Stanford Law School. For more details, or to host your own event, visit http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig.
Lessig’s talk will explore copyright in a digital age, and the importance of a doctrine like fair use for free expression on the Internet. Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, and is essential for commentary, criticism, news reporting, remix, research, teaching and scholarship with video. As a medium, online video will be most powerful when it is fluid, like a conversation. Like the rest of the internet, online video must be designed to encourage participation, not just passive consumption.
Friday July 30 will be the occasion of the hackNY program Demo Fest, held at the Courant Institute at NYU. Sponsored by ISOC-NY with funds provided by the Kauffman Foundation, hackNY organizes the summer hackNY Fellows program, in which selected student fellows are matched with NYC startups, and provided with shared housing in NYU dorms, plus lectures from local tech leaders. We are looking forward to seeing the results of their efforts. Video will be shot and webcast at a later date.
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joly 5:23 am on August 11, 2010 Permalink |
Video of this event is now posted.