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[Fwd: WHAT WE LEARNED FROM NAPSTER -- FORUM THURS 15 FEB 5-7 PM,BARTOS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Sun Feb 11 09:56:20 2001
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From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
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Of possible interest,
Greg
David Thorburn wrote:
>
> MIT COMMUNICATIONS FORUM:
> "COPYRIGHT, COMMERCE AND CULTURE --
> WHAT WE LEARNED FROM NAPTSTER"
>
> Thursday, Feb. 15, 2001
> 5-7 p.m.
> Bartos Theater
> MIT Media Lab
> Ames Street
> Cambridge
>
> Speakers:
> Eric Scheirer, Forrester Research
> Nisreen Shocair, Bertelsmann Content Group
> Respondent: Ingrid Volkmer, Visiting scholar in Comparative Media
> Studies, MIT
> Moderator: William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media, MIT
>
> Napster's tremendous grassroots popularity has generated intense
> debate about intellectual property rights in the digital age
> and has offered dramatic evidence for the public interest in
> on-line distribution of music and other media materials.
> Bertelsmann Content Group recently announced a collaboration
> with Napster to protect the interests of the recording industry
> while maintaining an infrastructure for grassroots file-sharing.
> This forum will offer a close look at the implications of
> those arrangements. How will this partnership affect the future
> of MP3 and file sharing? How will these new arrangements affect
> the recording industry? Will they preserve what has been vital
> about the grassroots Napster culture? What does Napster's example
> suggest about the broader issues of creativity and intellectual
> property in the digital era?
>
> Eric Scheirer is an analyst in the Media and Entertainment
> group of Forrester Research. He specializes in business-to-consumer
> delivery of entertainment content such as music, movies, and sports.
> He received his doctorate from the MIT Media Laboratory for his
> research on automated music-listening systems.
>
> Nisreen Shocair is Director of Business
> Development at Bertelsmann and is in charge
> of development in the Napster project.
