 Hi, I'm Daz of Greenwood Scientist at MIT Media Lab and co-chair of the Boston legal hackers and this morning we're gonna Announce and talk a little bit about an upcoming legal hackathon exploring Ownership rights and control to music and other media called the open media legal hack Join by Brian Brian, what do you use yourself and get us into it? Sure? My name is Brian Wilson. I manage Kansas City's legal hackers chapter And I also work at a startup called risk genius and do technology and policy research there We're here today to talk about the open media legal hackathon Which is this globally distributed event that's going to take place and many cities all over the all over the world from Approximately the beginning of the month of October until the end of the month of October So far we've got cities like Boston, New York, Sao Paulo, San Francisco, Tokyo, Vienna Kansas City and Dallas-Fort Worth who are all going to be involved if you want to find out more about How to get involved? Maybe your city is not there yet. Maybe you want to join in a city that is there You can check out legal hackathon.org and that will provide you with some more background about how to Get involved and support Support this initiative Can you see Brian am I am I displaying the legal hackathon site now? Yes. Yes You are great. Yep. So and there and there it is. All right Um, and so this is the first of a series of videos where some of the co-organizers Of the event Here's some of the cities listed here We should add Washington DC Are kind of interviewing each other to you know find out a little bit more about what's happening in each of these notes So as Brian Um Sort of alluded it's a distributed event and I'm going to be organizing the note in Boston and it's going to be happening at the media lab Actually Sunday October 28th from 10 up to update this date here from 10 a.m. To 10 p.m. And that's at 20 am Hearst in Cambridge, Mass and The way you can kind of sign up for that is just through our meet-up page And then we may We probably will have an event bright site for people that want to actually join hacking teams And that'll be a little bit more organized, but in general the format of the event is going to be Learn Build Discuss so we will have some learning sessions where you'll be able to learn about interesting tools like Endor which is a blockchain based on kind of big data and analytics platform that was actually started by By a student right out of our Research lab at MIT. There's Sandy Pentland there with the professor of the human dynamics research lab and Here's an Eve who is the student that started the company So it'll be nice to have them kind of come home and show us a little bit They're gonna have a docker image of this of this blockchain analytics program that people could use in the hacking track We're also going to be Collaborating closely with the open music initiative. Oh, am I from Berkeley College of Music and there they've helped us with a format and we're gonna be helping us with some tools and and Use cases as well. Their format is that will open our session with some Artists who will actually be Per actually be playing some music in the beginning and the music that they create new fresh music will then become inputs to Hacking teams who take the mp3 files or the other digital media and and use them as an input as they You know work on their you know kind of copyright Solutions and their trademark and their smart contracts and things like that. So we keeping the artists in the center We also have The Accord project will be making available some of their smart contracts templates where it makes it very easy to Align the Legal terms and the tech technical scripted terms together and they've got some nice integrations now for dispute resolution and for um and for um You know many different aspects of the use cases for in the music and media industry context, so There's a little bit of an overview on Some of what's going to be happening in in Boston Well, let me see can I Figure out technically how to get off of screenshare. I think I did okay So, uh, so what else what else Brian? I? Was just gonna comment it this this event seems seems to be unique in that it's not strictly focused on like Theoretical law it's it's focused on very Concretely on an application of the law and that is the application of law to the different facets of music so it's going to touch on several different Areas including intellectual property, so copyright the digital millennium copyright act open source licensing And then it also focuses on Contracts as well. So whether that's smart contracts or smart legal contracts Licensing your intellectual property to somebody else or figuring out how to negotiate kind of like a gig or anything like that this this is going to really be Kind of like a testing ground for anything that kind of falls under the umbrella of something that affects a musician That's looking to put out music make money from music or open source music So it seems it's something that I'm very excited about Yep me too if the idea came from Sandy Pentland the professor at the Media Lab who suggested The time is right to work with open music initiative and and to have a music focused hackathon And I remember Brian when you and I brought this up at the legal hackers International Summit in Brooklyn people loved it and you know it seems like every other lawyer is they want to be musician Yeah to start with and we've had no trouble at all in these venues across the world being able to reach out and engage with music so with musicians and with you know Like performing artists lawyers bills and that kind of stuff. I know you've got some great stuff happening in Kansas City That will go into much more depth on when we spot like Kansas City in our in the next video When you're back from Europe you world traveler. Oh, man So I know you've got to go catch a plane to get to Europe. Yes Wrap up, but thanks for being a co-organizer with me of the yeah International level it's it's great working with with other, you know legal hackers on the move like you Brian And you know looking forward to doing this event It's going to be a lot of fun and just to kind of reiterate if if anyone wants to get involved Check out legal hackathon.org and there's a Google form there with Information about how to be involved if you want to be an organizer and there's going to and that's where all the information about where The different nodes taking place. It'll it'll link to their specific sites so that you can get plugged in with whatever City that you want to yeah, that's right. Yeah as the sign-up pages come online It was the late September, but they're coming online now They about half of them have their event bright and meet-up pages The others are coming over the next several days and we'll link to them all there and many other good things just as a little teaser Brian and I put together the other organizers a really cool Google slide deck. That's a unified slide deck. It's going to help connect the whole world the interesting projects and ideas and Media pop out in the world. We can just scroll our way to happiness and wisdom about how to Transition to a digital age in the music industry context. Thanks to Google slides bringing us all together Yeah, who knew Google slides could turn into the the digital media gallery of the of the future Well, apparently Add this to add this to your bag of tricks Thanks very much. Yeah, check with you and stick to stay tuned as Brian said illegal hackathon.org for more news and info Okay. Bye. Bye Mr. Popper slow way