From the esteemed Dan Hunter comes the following:

From television (YouTube and Revver) to advertising (craigslist and consumer-made TV ads), movies (Machinima), photography (Flickr and iStockPhoto), and news (blogs and citizen journalism), technology is enabling amateurs to produce and distribute high-quality content that people want to watch, read, consume, re-use, and buy.  Media and entertainment companies are facing a range of challenging new issues.

On November 2, 2007, New York Law School’s Institute for Information Law & Policy will host the inaugural Amateur Hour Conference to bring together leaders in business, law and technology to focus on the opportunities and challenges of user-generated content to traditional media & entertainment businesses.

Confirmed speakers include Professor Clay Shirky (NYU professor, and author of the forthcoming book "Here Comes Everybody"), Kai Falkenberg (Editorial Counsel, Forbes Magazine), Nathan Freitas (Co-founder, Cruxy.com), Heather Moosnick (VP Business Development, CBS Interactive Audience Network), Brian Murphy (Partner, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC), Marni Pedorella (Vice President, Intellectual Property, NBC Universal), Stanley Pierre-Louis (Vice-President and Associate General Counsel, Viacom Inc.), Lisa Stancati  (Assistant General Counsel, ESPN), Marty Schwimmer (The Trademark Blog), David Sternbach (Director Legal & Business Affairs, A&E Television Networks), and Ken Werner (President, Warner Bros. Domestic TV Distribution).

Amateur Hour follows in the cutting-edge and interdisciplinary tradition of New York Law School’s enormously successful State of Play conferences, which for the last five years have brought together scholars, technologists, and business leaders to study virtual worlds.  The Amateur Hour conference will begin a new series of conversations about the changes that the Internet brings to media and entertainment.

Space is limited so please register early.  We look forward to seeing you at Amateur Hour.

For conference schedule and registration please visit: New York Law School-Amateur Hour.

I checked, and the registration fee is a delightfully participatory $50.