Asia at the Cutting Edge?
Today (5/30/06), Berkman’s Digital Media in Asia Project co-founder Eric Priest will give an informal lunchtime talk on Asia’s role in shaping the future global entertainment industries. Info is as follows:
Berkman Tuesday Luncheon Series, Tuesday, May 30 – 12:30 pm
Berkman Conference Room, Berkman Center
1587 Mass. Ave., Harvard Law School, Cambridge MA
Guest: Eric Priest
Topic: Asia at the Cutting Edge?
Some believe Asia is at the cutting edge of twenty-first century entertainment industry business models. A combination of high copyright piracy levels and high-tech populations has led entertainment companies in places like China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea to embrace the internet and emerging digital and mobile technologies as they seek innovative new revenue sources. This includes a massive new market for citizen-created media (music and movies) on the internet in China. What are the trends and are they really leading to sustainable business models for the rest of the world to emulate? Is the conservative state-run media in China creating a strong market for alternative, citizen-created Internet media and what are the implications for Chinese society, politics, and the entertainment industries? With all the emphasis on technology, is creativity increasingly an afterthought?
Eric Priest is a research fellow in the Berkman Center’s project on Internet Filtering, and a cofounder of Berkman’s Digital Media in Asia Project. He is also a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, and an adjunct professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Bio: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/eric_priest
Digital Media in Asia project blog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/dmablog/
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Razib Ahmed
June 10, 2006 @ 8:01 pm
” A combination of high copyright piracy levels and high-tech populations has led entertainment companies in places like China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea to embrace the internet and emerging digital and mobile technologies as they seek innovative new revenue sources.”
Well, India is another important place in this regard. I think the Indian market has more potential than Hong, Taiwan and even Korea in this regard.
dmablog
June 11, 2006 @ 9:51 am
I’m very interested in why you think India has such potential. It’s certainly a fast-growing mobile phone market, which has it poised to become a very large market for mobile digital entertainment, and of course India has wonderful and successful cultural industries, especially in film.
So, India does have potential. But my sense is that India is still an immature digital entertainment market compared with some of its East Asian neighbors–though you may be right about Taiwan and Hong Kong not offering as much as India in this regard (S. Korea I’m not so sure…). Besides the large numbers and market potential for digital entertainment, though, you just don’t hear much about India at the cutting edge of emerging entertainment business models. That’s not to say they aren’t happening there, but they aren’t getting as much attention if they are, at least in my experience. I’d love to hear some examples if you have any to set the record straight.
Webmaster
August 30, 2006 @ 11:21 am
It very interesting to know this. The Movie and Music Industry in India is catching up and gaining large grounds, thanks to Digital Technology.