Copyright, laws and patents have slowed down the human race, luckily we still have a chance against nature. Without these limits, the current situation would be much worse. However, these same rules have also slowed down the improvements that could exist if they were not so controlled.

With YouTube types of websites growing like mushrooms, the networks, the music, television, film industries and their lawyers have been busy lately. At long last, the entertainment industry is realizing that it is fighting an uphill battle. The industry has come to understand that it’s time to stop being so uptight and get the coin out of where you wouldn’t get it unless you make a truce and invent some kind of special rules of the web world.

This can still take months, years or two at best, but the main thing is that the old footage is eventually recycled and the people who own the rights get some kind of recognition in the form of copyright payments. How exactly this is done is still unclear, but the good news is that transformation is on its way. Listen to music! It has been recycled; regret, mixed and remixed over and over again.

Now, how could this affect current television programming? It would be unfair and stupid not to use this same transformation on television shows. Channels need programming and escaping the audience leaves a huge cap on the ad revenue that most networks live on.

There are not too many options for the survival of TV channels: try to get your lost part of the web – almost impossible, sell more but less advertising time – already people are bored of seeing the current amount of ads, make cheaper but more interesting or entertaining shows – now we’re definitely on to something …

To produce cheaper, more entertaining, and rating-friendly programming, you need to use viewers as the main ingredient. Reality TV has demonstrated this fact very clearly; from a few program formats in the last decade to about a hundred today. Third, US programming is currently based on Reality TV. No scripts, no actors, no sets, just real life on screen. Competition, skill, fear, family, etc., based on real life entertainment in its purest form.

On the other hand, has this volume of neighborhood faces already bored people? How much more can viewers take? Surely everyone is saying that I – could – should have been there and done so much better in their home capes.

Now this is where it gets interesting. In fact, viewers could participate in different television formats from their sofa at home night after night: they could become respected, rich and famous without looking at a single race, perspective or capacity restrictions, and all of this could go on over and over again. time without any limitation day after day or week after week! Since nothing like this exists, it must be new, right?

How many viewers have thought of doing something different or adding features to a scene when they were watching a movie, a series, a nature documentary, or maybe a daily soup? Spice things up to make them more attractive, entertaining, or scary? Basically, watchers have been making their own “Director’s Cut” in their heads, probably since the dawn of television.

Now think of that laptop, PS3, or digital box in the living room. Instead of imagination, people can edit their own video clip using these portals as tools and post it to the “show forum”, which then decides if they will actually be on a real show that night / week or not. This will not create just a few dozen new formats, but a new culture, also a new concept of television. Without getting down to boring details, the future of television comes down to this:

– Will the owners of the entertainment industry, copyrights and clip libraries understand that it is of the utmost importance to their own name and that of nature to draw up a clear law book of the rules, regulations and prices of rights of Author specified for the use of the Internet and for the new, future way of doing television programming? –

There is a new concept of TV coming to town near you all and the only thing that can slow it down is the future copyright situation. Can we edit the latest TV series on the go? I highly doubt it, but there are still plenty of images to play with.

The date and time for these new look and feel concepts are still open, but if I had to make a guess I’d say 2010, roughly two years from now.