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Friday, April 1st, 2011
Pitching ideas to publishers, studios and broadcasters used to be reasonably straightforward. If you had a good story, a track record and talent attached. Not easy to get a deal, perhaps, but at least the rules of the game were mutually understood. It’s not the same with convergent media.
In the ...
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Sunday, November 21st, 2010
The Technology Strategy Board is currently considering how to frame future competitions to address the impact of convergence, one of the major priorities identified in its Creative Industries Strategy,
Alex Stanhope proposes three filters for analysing the process of convergence: technology, relationships and activity.
These provide a very useful perspective but do they ...
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
I've not written anything about politics here in the past but I think that the onslaught on public services currently being launched by the coalition government has to be opposed as vociferously as possible. We are facing the wholesale dismantling of the welfare state by a government using the current ...
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Presented by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (in association with Sheffield Doc/Fest and Crossover Labs) Digital Revolutions is the biggest short film competition around and you don’t need to be a professional to enter! With a professional and amateur category this competition is open to all... So, put on ...
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
A KPMG study, covered by here by the Daily Telegraph, shows that UK consumers remain far less willing than their global counterparts to pay for digital content, especially when compared with the BRIC countries.
Britons are, however, more willing to accept targeted advertising on communication devices and are willing ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, has published six template contracts to help digital agencies retain more of their intellectual property rights when negotiating commissions with public organisations.
http://www.nma.co.uk/news/nesta-issues-templates-for-ip-rights-deals/3011008.article
Summary of the Frameworks and the templates and how they can be used can be accessed here
http://www.nesta.org.uk/areas_of_work/creative_industries/digital_innovation/ipr_frameworks
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
One of the most striking online documentaries yet was Arte's Gaza/Sderot, produced by Serge Gordey.
He has now followed it with Havana/Miami which looks at the different aspirations of and challenges facing young Cubans on opposite sides of the Straits of Florida.
"The Cuban Revolution happened more than fifty years ago – ...
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Tuesday, July 21st, 2009
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Jamie Campbell from Juice Games who was a participant in Crossover Play has written an article about the experience. You can read ithere
Another participant, Karen Johnson, has given an account on her blog.
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
A press release from Channel 4:
Channel 4 is delighted to announce a new partnership with Crossover, the cutting-edge media training organisation that specialises in preparing producers to embrace the cross-platform future and new opportunities in emerging digital media. Channel 4 is leading the way by being the first broadcaster in ...
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
I’ve been doing some work with the UK Government’s Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) which was established around a year ago to advise ministers on creating frameworks for regulation. I was invited to help design and facilitate an idea generation session involving representatives of industry and consumer organisations ...
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