James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins Keynote: The Clearance Culture and the Future of Film
Venue: Hubs C
Friday 07 November 2008 16:00
Participants: James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins
Filmmakers around the world now have to deal with a tangle of legal rules: copyrights, clearances of ever smaller fragments of music or image, licensing disputes. What is going on? Is it producing better art, better film, consistent revenue streams? Is the clearance culture a matter of legal reality or business fantasy? Two experts on the way law affects the conditions of creativity offer some surprising answers.