On January 23-24, 2006, Intelligent Television hosted the Economics of Open Content symposium at MIT to bring together representatives from media industries, cultural and educational institutions, and legal and business minds to discuss how to make open content happen better and faster.

Besides the streaming video links below, the whole set of the presentations under a Creative Commons attribution license on WGBH.

Day One | Day Two

Monday, January 23, 2006

Welcoming Remarks
Duration: 22:16
Anne Margulies, MIT Open CourseWare
Cathy Casserly, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Peter B. Kaufman, Intelligent Television

New Models of Creative Production in the Digital Age
Duration: 49:23
Paul Courant, University of Michigan
Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management

Collaboration and the Marketplace
Duration: 18:38
Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America and Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society

Keynote address: "Openness as an Ethos"
Duration: 32:15
James Surowiecki, staff writer, The New Yorker, and author, The Wisdom of Crowds

Keynote Follow-up Panel
Duration: 22:48
James Surowiecki
Paul Courant
Eric von Hippel
Mark Cooper

Industry Study I: The Economics of Open (Free) Software
Duration: 9:03
Richard Stallman, Free Software Foundation

The Economics of Knowledge as a Public Good
Duration: 48:58
John Willinsky, University of British Columbia

Industry Study II: The Economics of Open Courseware
Duration: 59:59
Anne Margulies, MIT Open CourseWare
Steve Carson, MIT Open CourseWare
Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT Open CourseWare

Industry Study III: The Economics of Open Text
Duration: 1:02:38
Fred Beshears, University of California - UC Berkeley
Ellen W. Faran, MIT Press
John Willinsky, University of British Columbia

Industry Study IV: The Economics of the Music Industry
Duration: 1:19:43
Terry Fisher, Harvard Law School

Industry Study V: The Economics of Open Archives, Museums, and Libraries - Part I
Duration: 1:21:31
David Dawson, Museums, Libraries, and Archives Council, UK
Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage Information Network

Industry Study V: The Economics of Open Archives, Museums, and Libraries - Part II
Duration: 54:20
Howard Besser, New York University
Ellen Dunlap, American Antiquarian Society

Event co-sponsored by Intelligent Television and MIT Open CourseWare with the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Other events from this sponsor: Online Video and the Future of Television