EC EXECUTIVES TO ADDRESS DIGITAL CONTENT SUMMIT

SPEAKERS from the European Commission Information Society Directorate will address digital entertainment industry gurus later this month at Liverpool's first international digital content summit.
Digital Content Europe, the key event in the digital content calendar, will take place in Liverpool’s Town Hall on November 28 2001.
Delegates will hear presentations from Dr Yves Rene de Cotret, head of Sector for Electronic Commerce and Adrian Brazier, associate director of the UK Department of Trade & Industry.
Under the theme ‘winning strategies for online entertainment’, the top-level industry summit will examine the main issues concerning the production, syndication and sales of online entertainment, with a special focus on 'rich media' items such as digital animation, short film, games and music.
Seminar sessions will address the following topics: harvesting the true value of digital content, the rapidly changing value chain, negotiating the path to market for content producers, key distribution platforms and content categories including the emergence of mobile applications, the need for technical solutions including digital rights management and successful revenue models.
Dr de Cotret will present an overview of results obtained from European Commission research programmes dealing with e-content production, copyright protection and distribution.
Adrian Brazier will address the delegates on the remit and resources available to content industries under the European Commission e-content programme.
Other speakers have already been confirmed from Yahoo! Europe, BBC Online, Philips Design, Screendigest, Kamera Interactive and Vitaminic amongst others.
Full event information can be found at www.digitalcontenteurope.com
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