Rick Prelinger - Technology, Copyright and Access
Channel: Steal ThisFilm
Date: 2014-01-24

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San Francisco, April 2007 // Categories: Copyright, Cultural Production 
Here Prelinger underlines how innovative technology opens up new visions of the possible, but stresses that their ultimate effect is contingent on other factors. Many media platforms simply die and are not heard from again. Regarding copyright, Rick describes its emergence from an esoteric subject to a consumer issue, but emphasizes that from the point of view of cultural production, access to original materials will go on being more important than copyright issues in most cases. In closing he calls for a dialogue between users and producers of culture, to establish a new compact.