May 11 at 8:30am

Wanted: Film Fest Panels On Privacy Issues

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As traditional media merges with new & social media, the issues we need to be concerned about also start to change.  Filmmakers are only now starting to wake up to the fact that they should be the owners of the data that their work generates, particularly if they are being asked to license their work for such low fees as currently are in vogue.

Let’s say that you do gather 500,000 email addresses during the build and release of your movie.  What are you going to do with those addresses?  What moral and ethical issues are related to this?

Is it just my imagination or have I really not seen a privacy panel at a film convention?  Who is going to take the lead on this?

And whom would you suggest be on this panel?

Have you checked out the Electronic Privacy Information Center?

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  • The number one expert, world-wide, on this is Eben Moglen - he should be part of the conversation - he should lead it. That said, I don't think fests are the right venue. Fest panels are a mix of people and quite frankly, they get very little traction outside of their little world (for panels). For industry, I think this could be ok at Sundance and/or IFP, but even better would be a conversation recorded and posted on your blog and linked to others so it can go viral and start a debate and then a series of conversations, some of which might be at some festivals.
  • The Connecticut Film Festival is sort of on this wavelength, Ted ... we had a speech about topics close to this on Saturday, with Richard Esguerra from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

    http://www.ctfilmfest.com/site...

    I wish you had posted this last week. :)
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