Four Ways To Build A New Open Infrastructure

Thompson on Hollywood, Thompson On Hollywood
Fri, 10/09/2009 - 8:42am

Digital marketing expert Lance Weiler joins the fray with a modest proposal for how the film industry should embrace innovation as it faces the digital future: Where the industry goes from here is going to require a rethinking of the infrastructure that supports it. To realistically move forward, innovation, experimentation and R&D is needed to help create an OPEN framework that will improve the funding, creation, distribution and discovery of truly …

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