ACSIL Footage Expo 2015

Conference Program

A conference pass costs just $50 and will give you access to all sessions. To be sure of a place at a particular session, please register for the expo, purchase a conference pass, then email reserveseats@acsil.org with your name (and any colleagues attending with you) and the code or title of the session(s) you want to attend.

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Track One Sessions – Terrace Tent

NOTE: The Outdoor Terrace seats a maximum of 100 people. To reserve a place, please follow the instructions above.

Plenary Session (1A)  10am

Keynote Speaker

• Michael Kantor, Executive Producer of American Masters

Gatekeepers of Footage Access (1B)  1:00-2:15pm

Who Controls All of This Footage and Why Do They Charge What They Charge?

The footage world is a loose confederation of wildly diverse collections and cultures, representing thousands of distinct sources. Much of this footage is owned or represented by commercial enterprises, making it easy to identify and license footage at will, often in a single digital transaction. And then there are the other sources: public domain footage and footage provided with liberal creative commons licenses; valuable materials that have no recognizable owner (orphan films), government sources with inconsistent finding aids and access policies, home movies, corporate communications, independent media and an enormous amount of footage at media companies in analog form, waiting for someone to notice it and digitize it. How do you navigate these disparate holdings to get the footage you need?

This panel includes the gatekeepers of a variety of footage sources, from digital footage merchants to government archives and open content collaboratives. We’ve also invited highly experienced footage researchers who will talk freely about how they work with these divergent content sources.

Moderator

• Jessica Berman-Bogdan, Founder and CEO, Global ImageWorks

Panelists

• Alison Smith, Director of Sales, WGBH Stock Sales
• Lee Shoulders, Director of Video Content Development, Getty Images
• Dan Streible, Director, The Orphan Film Symposium / Director, Moving Image Archiving & Preservation, New York University
• Analisa Goodin, Founder & CEO, Catch & Release
• Lewanne Jones, Archival Producer & Research Director, Autonomedia
• Domenick Propati, Owner, Footage.net

About the speakers

Intellectual Property on the Move (1C)  3:30-4:45pm

What Are the Legal Challenges to Footage Use?

It ties many producers and their distributors in knots: what kind of risk is inherent in building media out of footage sources and archives? While footage-based programs have circulated around the globe for decades, and while footage is freely uploaded to video sites on the web, there is a persistent anxiety that a single infringing use will drive a company to ruin. Will it? Can it be insured? Is fair use a legitimate right? Are underlying rights of music and trademarks and talent and privacy a concern for all programming, or are news and documentary programs exempt somehow? What about educational use?

This panel is composed of the most engaged legal minds in the complex world of intellectual properties. Fortunately, there is a lot of good legal work underway to solve these problems, and just about every side of these issues will be on display on the ACSIL stage.

Moderator

• Matthew White, Executive Director, ACSIL

Panelists

• Anne Atkinson, Entertainment Attorney, Pryor Cashman
• Jay Fialkov, Deputy General Counsel, WGBH/Boston
• Jack Lerner, Director, Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic, University of California, Irvine
• Cathy Carapella, Vice President, Global Image Works
• Robert Stein, Of Counsel, Pryor Cashman

About the speakers

Track Two Sessions – Terrace Conference Room

NOTE: The Terrace Conference Room seats a maximum of 25 people. To reserve a place, please follow the instructions above.

The Digital Video Diaspora (2A)  1:00-2:00pm

The Challenge of Mapping Random Video Footage to Rights Holders

As video populates the global media ecosystem, the owners of stray video clips and programs often get lost, creating a new tension between those who authored and own the footage and those who distribute the footage under safe harbor protections. While there are takedown provisions and other protocols to help owners protect their materials, there is often no way for anyone to actually know where the material originated or who owns it. Indeed, one of the big frustrations for both licensors of footage and licensees of footage is the inability to track down a valid license for a video clip sourced on the web. Some content owners appreciate the leads they generate from YouTube uploads; others believe the entire business model of such sites is predicated on copyright infringement.

This panel brings a wide variety of voices to the discussion: user-generated video sites, multi-channel networks, footage researchers and footage licensors. Is there a way to better identify the owners of materials uploaded at random to the web? Are there protections for producers who can’t find the owner of a particular shot? This is probably the most contentious issue facing archives and researchers these days. Is there common ground? We'll see.

Moderator

• Max Segal, President Emeritus, ACSIL

Panelists

• Jeremy Rosen, Director of Audience Development, The Orchard
• Joe Basile, Director, Rights & Clearances, WNET/Thirteen
• David Peck, Founder & CEO, Reelin’ in the Years
• Judith Aley, Visual Researcher for Film & Television

About the speakers

The Disrupted Fight Back (2B)  3:30-4:30pm

How Old Media and Education Are Reinventing Themselves with Video

Over the past few centuries, the most familiar global media and educational brands built their audiences through the power of print and photography. But now video is an essential part of the media mix, and traditional publishers – many of whom have never had the need to produce or acquire video – are rising to the challenge with ambitious, video-centric websites. But where do they get all this video? They may hire producers to create short programs, and they may solicit user-generated video. But more and more, these entities are turning to the world’s footage sources for their day-to-day content needs.

This panel brings together deep thinkers in news, entertainment, and educational media to deliberate on the emerging need for video content. Now that video technologies have made it easy to move video from a concept to the screen, strong relationships are developing between these media entities and the type of footage suppliers represented by ACSIL’s membership.

Moderator

• Domenick Propati, Owner, Footage.net

Panel

• Mark Bauman, Sr. Vice President, Business Development, Smithsonian Enterprises
• Stephanie Preiss, Video Business Analyst, New York Times
• Sandy Goldberg, Education Director, WNET/PBS Learning Media
• Craig Herndon, iStudio Director, Creative Edge Studio Collaborative
• Carleton Jackson, Head, Library Media Services, University Libraries, University of Maryland

About the speakers

Merchants of Time (2C)  4:45-5:45pm

Valuing Footage in the Digital Era

Always the dominant media in popular entertainment, video is now emerging as the preferred media in our digital communications and educational activities as well. With all these new media and distribution channels, the footage business seems poised to fuel the coming boomtown of “video everywhere.” At the same time, mountains of new footage are being generated by ubiquitous new sources and the status quo is being challenged as never before. Will future creators value footage in a way that justifies existing price structures or will prices fall in response to this new demand? Is some footage inherently more valuable than others? And how will bulk distribution of footage to customers through subscriptions or ad-supported models affect the valuation of footage long-term?

This panel will project itself into the footage dynamics five years out, exploring the potential “value” of footage from multiple perspectives: commercial, cultural, educational. Today’s experimental business and distribution models will be our window into the great beyond as footage expands exponentially and is used in new and unusual ways.

Moderator

• Clara Fon Sing, Vice President Archives & Strategy, NBC News Archives

Panelists

• Christopher Vizas, Partner, Sutton Hoo Studios
• Joe Heider, SVP, Global Education, John Wiley & Sons
• Derick Rhodes, Footage Marketing, Shutterstock
• Jon Parker, Brand Director, Dissolve

About the speakers