Digital technologies have put incredible stress on the businesses that have been built around the distribution of music, news, films and television. The ability to make perfect digital copies has undermined legacy distribution models, and the stunning creativity fostered by consumer-grade software tools has made fair use an extremely complicated concept. These technologies have, moreover, undermined the economic base behind much professionally produced content, including news gathering that is central to our needs as a democracy. The talk will focus on these developments and their impact on the content and creative industries, and suggest that there is a way forward in which consumer and professional content can serve complementary goals ...