2007 SSP TMR
Panel 2: “Music, Television, and New Media”
Moderator: Christopher Lynch
This session will focus on current uncertainties and future trends in the digital delivery of media and entertainment. Jim Griffin will lead off the panel with a discussion about content-versus-service businesses as viewed from the music industry; Peter Kaufman will then discuss the production, distribution, and sustainability dimensions of television and video that a recovering publisher considers relevant for SSP members; and Professor Charles Nesson will talk about poker and the use of new media technologies in a broader social, educational, and legal context.
Speakers
Professor Nesson is currently leading a project for restorative justice in Jamaica. During the academic year, he teaches courses in Evidence and internet law, and recently began teaching the innovative new class Cyber One: Law in the Court of Public Opinion, which welcomes the participation of the internet community at large.
After he sold majority interest in TV Books to Broadway Video, Lorne Michaels’s television and film company, Mr. Kaufman served as Director of Strategic Initiatives at Innodata Corporation, the world’s largest provider of digital asset services and XML solutions. He also has served as founder and executive director of PUBWATCH, a nonprofit organization supporting book industries in Eastern Europe, and director of publications at the Institute for EastWest Studies.
In addition to serving as an agent for constructive change in media and technology, he is an author, serving as a columnist for magazines, and is on the boards of companies and associations. He started and ran for five years the technology department at Geffen Records. Prior to Geffen he was an International Representative for The Newspaper Guild in Washington, D.C.