OnCopyright 2008

Copyright Clearance Center is to be congratulated for creating a neutral and very well organized forum for discussing the future of copyright, and the issues of art, technology, society, and law that will help shape it.  Last week's OnCopyright 2008 symposium was excellent, and was covered by John Blossom with his usual insight and exhaustiveness.   As I've just commented to Information Today, one of the most useful aspects was the placement of copyright issues affecting information content in the larger context of music, television, and other media with major roles in shaping the legal environment, and user expectations.  The panel discussions occasionally lacked focus, but more than compensated by producing some rare insights from some of the most original and influential thinkers about intellectual property and society’s often competing values.  Most of the attendees with whom I spoke agreed that it should become an annual event.