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Vote for CSM on the SXSW PanelPicker!

PanelPicker 2011The Center for Social Media is endorsing four panel proposals at the prestigious South by Southwest film festival.  Panels are chosen in part by crowdsourcing. If you find any of these interesting,  please consider voicing your opinion on the SXSW PanelPicker site by entering a vote. We'd be very grateful, and would be happy to vote for you as well if you let us know.

 

CSM PANELS UP FOR A VOTE:


Yikes, I'm Being Sued! Managing litigation threatsSXSW logo 

Documentary films have never been more economically viable or important interventi ons in public discourse, and that has also increased their visibility for anyone who disagrees with them, or might want to benefit. Filmmakers have been put at risk because of demands to release all their production materials, as happened to Joe Berlinger with Crude; because their fair use claims were challenged; or because their films were subject to takedowns. How do you stay safe but still get your film made? In this panel you'll hear filmmaker horror stories, and learn from leading lawyers for documentary filmmakers how to handle challenges such as fair use claims, workarounds to DMCA prohibitions on breaking encryption, and intimidation.

Fair Use Face-Off: Blogging Meets MSM

While the Associated Press alerts the world that it is charging by the word for reuse of its materials, bloggers are making fun of the AP's own payless quotes from their own work. Politico.com and Time.com republish Rolling Stone's career-destroying interview with Gen. Stanley McChrystal; their claims of hot-news sharing look like hijacking to Rolling Stone. How does the fair use doctrine apply in the Wild West of the new journalism? As video becomes ever more pervasive in web-based reporting, what's ok to peel off of ESPN and what do you have to just link to? In this panel, you'll watch bloggers and mainstream mediamakers face off, get to vote on the stakes involved, and hear responses from legal and communications experts on the utility and limits of fair use on the front-lines of the changing media paradigm.
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Transmedia Translations: From One Screen to Another
 
How can media designed for one medium successfully cross screens to another, and result in c ross-feeding both platforms? Meet game designer-filmmaker-webisode creators and the people who strategize with them to make them successful.

Uncovering the Mysteries of Making Media that Matters

Join media sleuths Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke for an in-depth investigation of high-impact public and political reporting projects. They follow the trail of networked news producers who are successfully harnessing digital platforms, collaborative approaches and transmedia campaigns to spur conversation around hot-button issues and engage users to act. Clark and Van Slyke will present evidence of how outlets have integrated mobile and social tools into their organizational DNA, and how others can do the same. They will also offer tips to help producers track down their own best tales of impact.


Thank you from everyone at the Center for Social Media!