The Economics of Open Content - Intelligent Television

With the support of the Hewlett Foundation and MIT Open Courseware, Intelligent Television is organizing a two-day symposium at MIT on "The Economics of Open Content," on January 23 and 24, 2006. We are bringing together commercial representatives of most media industriespublishing, film, music, television, video, software, education/courseware, gamingtogether with representatives of cultural and educational institutions who are innovative in this area and legal and business minds in the academy. People representing many new and established commercial companies will be there. New Yorker economics columnist and bestselling author (The Wisdom of Crowds) James Surowiecki will keynote at the Cambridge meeting, with a presentation on January 23 titled "Openness as an Ethos."