Breakout Session on Copyright at Tech Policy Summit '08

Breakout Session on Copyright at TPS '08, originally uploaded by TechPolicySummit.

Last week at the Tech Policy Summit, one of the more interesting panels was "Copyright In A Converged World". Sitting on the panel Patrick Ross, the Executive Director of the Copyright Alliance; Fred von Lohmann, Senior Staff Attorney of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; Matt Zinn, Vice President and general counsel of TiVo; and moderator Doug Lichtman of UCLA Law School.

Denice Howell of ZDNet covered it with a fair and in-depth reporting of what went on in the room in her blog Lawgarithms in a post entitled "Sparks fly over copyright at Tech Policy Summit".

I, on the other hand, microblogged it on Twitter. In less than 140 characters I quoted Fred von Lohmann in what had to be, IMHO, the most pithy statement said on the panel: "The legal system has to let dinosaurs die!"