Crowdsourcing a TV Series

The plan for the upcoming Current TV series Bar Karma is that participants “would be able to submit story ideas, create storyboards based on the rough outlines from professional producers, and vote for the ideas that are submitted. The storyboard with the most votes will be adapted, produced and edited.”

Canadian Copyright Reform Struggles In Parliament

“If passed, the bill would legalize several well-established consumer practices, permitting you to time-shift TV programs, make backup copies of CDs and DVDs and format-shift anything you have legally acquired, copying your CDs onto your iPod, for example. But it doesn’t permit you to pick any digital locks that producers might choose to install on their content, which is proving to be its most contentious provision.”

Obama Copyright Enforcer To Take On File-Sharers

“At the Future of Music summit, Victoria Espinel waxed rhapsodic about the artistic community, echoing the Obama administration line that American innovation and intellectual property are key to its economic recovery. But without directly indicting consumers, she outlined a strategy for containing file-sharing that suggested that many digital music fans will need to alter their behavior or else risk being cut off from the Internet at the very least.”