Intellectual Property in 2012
Tim Wu talks with Jeffrey Toobin about the tension between control and exposure in intellectual-property law today. Wu believes the copyright tension in the next few years will be between control (making money off content) and exposure. He explains why in February, 2009, your television screen might go blank if you do not have cable or satellite service.
Wu led with his thoughts on the the difference between the laws and culture of the telephone versus the computer. The former is closed and controlled whereas the latter is more open. In the near future, what will happen with these two different worlds? Which will prevail?
Wu believes the copyright tension in the next few years will be between control (making money off content) and exposure. Several questions will be answered in the near future. How do you preserve openness yet cash in at some magic moment? How will people creating content make money? He thinks people will figure out a way.
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About Tim Wu:
Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School. He is the co-author of Who Controls the Internet? (Oxford U. Press 2006), and a writer for Slate Magazine. In 2006 Wu was recognized as one 50 leaders in science and technology by Scientific American magazine for his work on Network Neutrality theory.
Tim Wu previously worked for Riverstone Networks in the telecommunications industry in Silicon Valley, and was a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Justice Stephen Breyer. He graduated from McGill University (B.Sc), and Harvard Law School, and has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Chicago, and Stanford Law School.
Wu has written for various legal publications, and also the Washington Post, Forbes Magazine, Slate Magazine, Playboy, and others. He is on the advisory board of Free Press, Public Knowledge, and is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
About Jeffrey Toobin:
Jeffrey Toobin is a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, former legal analyst for ABC News. Toobin has provided broadcast legal analysis on many high profile cases, including Michael Jackson, the O.J. Simpson civil trial and the Starr investigation of President Clinton. He received a 2000 Emmy Award for his coverage of the Elián González custody saga.
Earlier in his career, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, New York, as well as an associate counsel to Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh during the Iran-Contra affair and Oliver North’s criminal trial.
Toobin earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Toobin has written several critically acclaimed, best-selling books including A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal that Nearly Brought Down a President; The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson; and Too Close to Call: The 36-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election.
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