Sport and Tech Conference Tackles Youtube/Google

A growing
number of sports organizations including the English Premier League have
initiated legal action against social networking website You Tube/Google,
claiming copyright infringement.

Against
this background, the social networking phenomenon will be discussed at Sport
and Technology: The Conference 2007, to be held at Inmarsat’s headquarters in

London on Friday 29 June
(www.sportandtechnologyconference.com).

‘Protecting
Digital Assets in Sport and the Rise of Social Networking Sites’ will address
which digital assets are actually owned by sports rights owners. The panel of
experts will discuss why sports organisations need to be protected, what the main
types of security breach are, who the innovators in digital security are, which
online security systems are best, why P2P is potentially such a threat, how
anti-piracy measures are affecting digital production and how rights owners are
protecting themselves against social networking sites.

Ze’ev
Rozov, CEO, of social networking site Sportingo and Umberto Righetti,Commercial
Director of grassroots online sports network SportingPulse, will be joined on
the panel by Christopher Stokes, CEO of digital policing company NetResult,
Andy Nobbs, President and Managing Director, of digital tracking service
Teletrax and Ciaran Quinn, Vice President, General Manager Europe of DRM
solutions company Entriq.

As well as
also including panel discussions on the areas of ‘Convergence’, ‘Venues as
Television Studios’ and ‘Technology versus Referees’, Sport and Technology: The
Conference 2007 will feature an afternoon Opening Address by Mickey Charles,
President and CEO of realtime sports wire service The Sports Network and a
Closing Address by Doug Gardner, Managing Director of Avaya’s FIFA World Cup
Programmes 2001-06. Delegates will also enjoy an evening cocktail party and a
charity raffle, both of which have been popular at the event since its
inaugural edition in 2005.

Tottenham
Hotspur legend, Steve Perryman MBE, now Director of Football at recent Wembley
visitors Exeter City FC, will be the drawmaster at the charity raffle which
will include prizes such as a FIFA World Cup football signed by Pele and
donated by Avaya and an Ashes Tour signed Australian bat donated by the ECB.
Perryman holds the Spurs record for most appearances in the league, FA Cup,
League Cup and
Europe. In a long, successful
career Perryman also won more medals than any other player at Spurs with two
League Cups, two UEFA Cups and two FA Cups alongside the honour of the Football
Writers’ Player of the Year in 1982. In 1986, Perryman was awarded the MBE for
services to football.

Other
speakers at Sport and Technology: The Conference 2007 include representatives
from a wide range of companies and rights owners including: Arsenal Football
Club, Arsenal Football Club, Arqiva, Croke Park Stadium, England and Wales
Cricket Board, Horrow Sports Ventures, Input Media, Loughborough University,
ProZone Sports, PVI, Racing UK, Philips Lighting, Rugby Football League,
Setanta Sports, Westminster (UK government) and Virgin Media.