One issue that emerged is the challenge to actually get proper licences for works that because of digital duplication are now often difficult to trace to a legal source. USC School of Law Professor Jack Lerner suggested that a more streamlined version of copyright law that treated film and music in a unified way might be more effective for digital media.

Digital media could be an amazing resource tool if there were a way to digitize the many obscure, orphan, or rare film prints to create a kind of super media library. In a way, this seems like a natural project for the ever-expanding internet. However, as panelist Mark Lemmons of Thought Equity Motion suggested, it is unclear how it could be financed, given that the current paradigm seems to be internet=free (or at least, hard to monetize).