Peter B. Kaufman is president and founder of Intelligent Televisio0n, a research institute focussed on video developments concerning culture & education. He gave four key points for introduction which he will turn further into in the next sessions:
- Force of law, technology and history is on the side of liberty and access. To quote Jean-Jacques Rousseau: “Man is born Free”. Global understanding of human property is changing rapidly and has its effects on the balance of ownership and property rights. Will liberal cultivation will take place again? “A new accommodation will need to be reached”
- We have to start un-burdening with our past. Video for Wikipedia and the web. Only less than 5% is digitized and put online. Legal complexity makes it difficult to do so, because of (old) contracts and laws. So publishing online is complex, “music is the most complicated thing of all” states Kaufman.
- We need new models to create an open debate in our world about how to deal with this issues in the future: The way we produce public media and go forward. New protocols, recording and producing content.
- How to relate to the commercial world better. Technologies and trends of video/music – pubcasters. Open resources will be discoverable, people who customize resources. People who invest millions of dollars for development in television-technology. Trying to build a new social contract between producers, consumers of content. What’s the new norm for media makers?
To conclude: “New media productions connected to our history and the web and future! Empowered producers of the most important audiovisual content of our time!” says Kaufman. The collaboration between the old apparatus of production and the generative activity (participation, meta-data, tagging, open API culture) needs a change right now!
Author: Elias van Hees