{"id":97,"date":"2009-02-12T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=97"},"modified":"2009-02-12T13:56:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T13:56:57","slug":"reforming_copyright_or_how_i_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/02\/reforming_copyright_or_how_i_s\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforming Copyright, or How I Spent My Winter Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

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I’m in the middle of a little vacation, though in uncharacteristic fashion, I haven’t packed a suitcase and jetted off to someplace exotic. It’s really more of a staycation, as my colleague Frank likes to say, and it’s been a good week. In between catching up on boring adult stuff and building fantastic<\/a> (or, in my case<\/a>, ridiculous) contraptions, I can now recommend a couple of awesome restaurants (1<\/a>, 2<\/a>) and a movie<\/a> to you. <\/p>\n

In addition, I spent Wednesday with the good folks from the Future of Music Coalition for their 2009 Policy Day<\/a>. What can I say: A time out from time off was in order when I saw the all-star guest list<\/a>. For those who get giddy when debates over copyright reform and net neutrality crop up, I couldn’t imagine a more lovely February day inside the Beltway (aside from the moment that nice man told me I had to toss my coffee before entering the auditorium). It was a great relief, though not much comfort, to listen to legal professionals from YouTube and the RIAA play out on stage the internal debate I have running in my head when trying to sort out intellectual property rules and licensing issues in a digital environment. Look, mom, they don’t know either! Or at least they can’t agree, which leads to effectively the same end result for anyone out in the field hoping for a fair and reasonable playbook to follow. The short answer I took away was: No one has the magical solution to how we’re going to get out of this predicament (though a pristinely accurate database of metadata for every music track ever recorded would sure help us with the “how to efficiently log, monetize, and distribute” equation), but waiting for Congress to legislate us out of this or for the courts to litigate us clear is probably not the way to go. Meanwhile, however, that’s sort of what we’re doing. <\/p>\n

You can catch the recap of some of yesterday’s panels here<\/a> (though my favorite session–#3–in not currently available for some reason. Perhaps it’s a copyright issue?). Ahem. Anyway, I’ll be drawing on a lot of what I learned when Mind the Gap hosts its first book club event in March. Some of my blogger heros have agreed to read and discuss Lessig’s new book Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy<\/i><\/a> in this space next month. We haven’t figured out how to email the wine and cheese around yet, but if early plenary emails are any indication, it’s sure to be a hot week of discussion. If you’re interested in playing along, get reading. I’m also gathering resource links, so if you’ve read anything great on this or related issues that you’d like to toss into the mix, please do float links and source directions my way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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