{"id":125,"date":"2006-01-31T12:01:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T16:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2006\/01\/31\/professor-fisher-presents-conclusions"},"modified":"2006-12-10T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T14:22:51","slug":"professor-fisher-presents-conclusions-on-oecd-digital-content-confe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2006\/01\/31\/professor-fisher-presents-conclusions-on-oecd-digital-content-confe\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Fisher Presents Conclusions on OECD Digital Content Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a647\"><\/a>  Professor Terry Fisher has the difficult job, as the Day 1 Rapporteur, to present in 10 minutes the OECD conference conclusions. Here are the main points he made a few minutes ago:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">A. Points of agreement <\/span>(or at least substantial consensus)<\/p>\n<p>(a) Descriptive level:<br \/>\no    We\u2019re entering a participatory culture, active users, explosion of blogs; differences in web usage.<\/p>\n<p>(b) Predictive level:<br \/>\no    Consensus that we\u2019ll see a variety of applications that will florish; the shift to biz models that incl internet distribution will have long tail effects, increase diversity<\/p>\n<p>(c) Level of aspiration:<br \/>\no    We should aim for a harmonized, global Internet \u2013 single, harmonized global approach (vs. competing legal\/regulatory frameworks)<br \/>\no    Governments should stay out, but broad consensus of 6 areas where governmental intervention is desirable: (1) Stimulating broadband; (2) fostering universal access (bridging dig.div.); (3) educating consumers; (4) engage in consumer protection against fraud, spam; (5) fostering competition; (6) promoting IP to achieve an optimal balance<br \/>\no    We should attempt to achieve \u201cbiz model neutrality\u201d (TF&#8217;s personal comment: appealing idea, but infeasible, there\u2019s no way to achieve it.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">B. Points of disagreement <\/span><\/p>\n<p>(a) Descriptive level<br \/>\no    Whether IP currently does strike optimal balance (yes, middle ground, no \u2013 spectrum of positions)<\/p>\n<p>(b) Predictive level<br \/>\no    Which biz strategy will prevail: pay-per-view; subscription; free-advertisement based model?<\/p>\n<p>(c) Level of aspiration:<br \/>\no    Network neutrality: required or not as a matter of policy<br \/>\no    TPM: Majority: yes, smaller group: no; intermediate group: only under certain conditions.<br \/>\no    Should governments be in the biz of interoperability?<br \/>\no    Using government power to move towards open doc format?<br \/>\no    Government intervention to achieve an Internet that is open vs. variations of a walled-gardened net?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Terry Fisher has the difficult job, as the Day 1 Rapporteur, to present in 10 minutes the OECD conference conclusions. Here are the main points he made a few minutes ago: A. Points of agreement (or at least substantial consensus) (a) Descriptive level: o We\u2019re entering a participatory culture, active users, explosion of blogs; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257,1185,1179,877,690,259,1195,618,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-digital-institutions","category-diversity","category-drm","category-fair-use","category-innovation","category-oecd","category-open-access","category-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}