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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">I took a closer look at the - <a href="http://www.video24-7.org/"><font color="#0021e7" style="color: #0021e7"><u>http://www.video24-7.org</u></font></a>/ 24/7 a DIY Video Summit which is scheduled to take place a few weeks after the Video Vortex event. Both conferences reflect the current relevance of online video. The <a href="http://www.video24-7.org/overview/"><font color="#0021e7" style="color: #0021e7"><u>http://www.video24-7.org/overview/</u></font></a> overview for the 24/7 summit focuses on examining ways to maintain the production and distribution of online video and aims to cater for a broad range of content producers from do-it-yourself through to professional, with the objective to get "grassroots" producers involved in discussions on where online video is heading. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">"We are in the early stages of a fundamental transformation in how we create, share and view dynamic visual media. This transformation is enabling a new media ecology that can support widespread amateur video creation, and peer-to-peer and many-to-many distribution to audiences both large and small. Although it is clear that there is tremendous demand for user-generated and bottom-up forms of digital video, it remains unclear how best to support these creative projects, what the implications are for artistic practice and how to build bridges between old and new media."</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">Following the broad objective of the event there are representatives from activists, academics, curators, media producers through to commercial providers including some of the larger video websites. The event supported by the Institute of Multimedia Literacy, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California from what I can tell tends to be US centric. The panel <a href="http://www.video24-7.org/panels/index.html"><font color="#0021e7" style="color: #0021e7"><u>http://www.video24-7.org/panels/index.html</u></font></a> presentations/discussions cover four broad themes research; artistic practice; intellectual property/copyright; Tools (both non-commerrcial and commercial) with discussion on "ad-revenue sharing". </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">The IP/copyright <a href="http://www.video24-7.org/panels/index.html"><font color="#0021e7" style="color: #0021e7"><u>http://www.video24-7.org/panels/index.html</u></font></a> questions being asked: </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">"Are the legal risks of DIY media--copyright infringement from remix and appropriation, aggressive licensing demands by rightsholders, and the like--silencing vibrant voices? On the other side, can intellectual property, always intended as an incentive for production, work for DIY artists?"</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Monaco; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">Overall, the 'summit' seems to provide another platform that supports an alternative perspective on what is described in the 24/7 publicity as a "revolution" that is similar in scale and ubiquity to blogging.</font></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; ">>></span></span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><a href="mailto:sethkeen@internode.on.net">sethkeen@internode.on.net</a></span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/">http://www.sethkeen.net/blog/</a></span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "><a href="http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/">http://www.networkcultures.org/videovortex/</a></span></span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;; font-family: Arial; "></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 13px; ; font-size: 11px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11px; "></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 13px; ; font-size: 11px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></body></html>