Put my candy bar in this book and we will pay you but they do that for the movies. There was the Product Placement novel and it was quite controversial and it was a prank but it fell back in her face. Talkedabout the nonprofit world in this world to talk of the Carnegie Foundation to help publishers to put up the muslim world bookshelf that is 30 books on muslim cultural issues 300 libraries in the country with a cooperative effort with institutions of governance that the libraries are. There is cooperative effort that does take place and officials come to mind my favorite example and lolita says when she speaks to her students she would say can you name in american president of the 19th century . They would say what about Abraham Lincoln . She would say can you name in American Literary figure . They all say mark twain. Who has a bigger impact . A literary figure or political figure . When it is really the driving circumstance. It is advertising. I always insisted putting advertising
Literally the house that copyright built. And with that, let me start by just introducing briefly the distinguished panel that we have. Their bios in depth, of course, are in the program and online. But to my immediate left is tom allen who is a former congressman from maine and is presently the president and the chief executive officer of the association of american publishers. To his left is James Shapiro who is a professor of english and a shakespearean scholar and author and Vice President of the Authors Guild. Hes a professor at columbia university. Thank you for coming down from new york, jim. And did you also come down from new york . This week i was here. This week you were in washington. Youre everywhere. And to james left, we have peter jaszi who is also an author, and i will say although peter does not want me to, was recently given the great honor by his colleagues at the Washington College of law to have a lecture named after him. Congratulations, peter, and thank you for
To endings and beginnings. Endings and beginnings spur reflection and hope. Here are three of mine for this transition period: copyright, cybersecurity and social media.
Current Advisory Group Pat Aufderheide is University Professor in the School of Communication at American University and the founder of the Center for Media & Social Impact (originally the Center for Social Media). She is the author of several books, including Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction, Communication Policy and the Public Interest and, with […]
In recent years, major media organizations have been lobbying Congress to enact legislation, the “Journalism Competition and Preservation Act,” requiring search engine providers to engage in a form of collective bargaining about the tax they would pay to media publishers for the privilege of providing links to their news articles, backed up by mandatory interest arbitration in which…