Next Tuesday at 7PM, I'm hosting a public talk at USC by Revver co-founder Steven Starr. Revver is a company that helps video creators add commercials to their short films, which creates a situation where the more a video is copied, the better it is for the creator. this is in marked contrast to the Hollysaurs, who are still pursuing improbably businesses that only work if they can make the Internet worse at copying bits.
Steven's talk is part of my ongoing series of talks by copyright scholars, engineers, security experts, policy wonks and other people with interesting things to say about the copyright wars. We podcast every one, and they're attended by a really eclectic mix of artists, hackers, international development types — even lawyers from major studios.
Steven's talk fits in by talking about new platforms for creativity that embrace the Internet's fundamental nature as a machine for copying bits fast and freely — business models that don't try to change the world, but rather, capitalize on it.
Where: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, main campus, Annenberg School, Room 207
When: Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 7PM-9PM
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