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Upcoming AfterTV 'Moments of Clarity'
Nov 19 - Tokyo (by invitation only) Jan 14 - London (by invitation only)
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The Cult of the Amateur |
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In his highly acclaimed 'Cult of the Amateur', AfterTV Founder Andrew Keen explores the implications of our newspaper, magazine, music, and movie industries being supplanted by an avalanche of amateur, user-generated free content. Newspapers' advertising revenue is being drained by free classified ads on sites like craigslist; television networks are under attack from commercial-free TiVo's; file-sharing and iPods are devestating to the multibillion-dollar music industry, and may soon undermine our movie industry; and Google's print-scanning technologies jeopardize the profitability of conventional publishing. In a "cut-and-paste" online culture where intellectual property is freely swapped, stolen or "aggregated," royalty income is lost from the pockets of our artists, journalists, and creators. As Keen notes, the impact on our culture is silent but seismic.   |
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